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Title: The British Library and SUNCAT


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The British Library and SUNCAT
  • Brenda Young
  • The British Library
  • Bibliographic Development

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The British Library a (very) short history
  • The British Library Act 1972
  • Combined
  • British Museum library departments
  • National Central Library
  • National Lending Library for Science and
    Technology
  • NCL NLLST became the British Library Lending
    Division

3
The British Library a (very) short history
  • The following were added in 1974
  • British National Bibliography
  • Office for Scientific and Technical Information
  • Added later
  • India Office Library and Records (1982)
  • British Institute of Recorded Sound (1984)
  • See http//www.bl.uk/about/history.html

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MARC records
  • Blaise (British Library Automated Information
    Service) established in 1977
  • UKMARC i.e. British National Bibliography
  • LCMARC i.e. Library of Congress Books All
  • BL catalogues added later
  • HSS ( Humanities and Social Sciences - 1984)
  • SRIS (Science Reference and Information Service -
    1987)
  • BLC (British Library Catalogue - 1988-1991)
  • DSC Serials ( Document Supply Centre - 1995)
  • Other databases which include serial records
  • BNB
  • ISSN (International Standared Serial Number)

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Integrated Library System
  • Aleph implemented 2004
  • All the BLs records in a single catalogue for
    the first time
  • One bibliographic record per title
  • Integration of non-bibliographic records also
    required
  • Long period of preparation preceded implementation

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Problems with the data
  • Duplication of records
  • Varying quality
  • DSC serials
  • Converted to MARC from an in-house format
  • Very little data in the records
  • Included SRIS holdings
  • BLC
  • Keyboarded from printed catalogue
  • Lack of information and subfield coding
  • SRIS
  • BNB numbers, DDC and LCSH removed
  • All made the matching and merging a very complex
    process

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Migration to Aleph
  • Main tasks
  • Standardise the bibliographic data
  • Convert the data to MARC 21
  • Convert the data to UNICODE
  • Enhance the records by adding
  • ISSN
  • Key titles
  • Library of Congress Subject Headings
  • Dewey numbers
  • Over 500,000 records enhanced in this way

8
SUNCAT
  • A challenge!
  • An opportunity!

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BL contribution to SUNCAT
  • Original dataset of 698,137 records supplied
  • Supply monthly update files of records flagged as
    new, changed or deleted
  • Records are cleaned before submitting them i.e.
    all local and Aleph fields removed
  • Updates have now been loaded to SUNCAT

10
BL contribution to SUNCAT
  • Dedicated SUNCAT team working on enhancing
    records
  • 4 full-time equivalent staff 2 full-time, 4
    part-time
  • Based in Data Quality Team
  • Priority work on Inside titles
  • Work from list of titles on spreadsheet
  • On Aleph, merge duplicate records, copy records
    to be deleted to deletions library
  • Use external sources COPAC, OCLC, ISSN Portal,
    SUNCAT
  • Retrieve items from collections when necessary
  • Have processed 23,000 records representing 5,000
    titles
  • New and changed records also contributed by
    mainstream serials cataloguers

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ISSN requests
  • We can only fulfill requests for ISSN for UK
    titles
  • We expect requesting library to make every effort
    to find out if an ISSN already exists
  • We need evidence of the publication photocopies
    are acceptable
  • We need as much information as possible
  • Requests from SUNCAT contributors will be dealt
    with by the SUNCAT Team
  • Guidelines are to be posted on the SUNCAT web
    pages

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