March 2001 Monthly Report 67
BIBLIOGRAPHIC SERVICES MONTHLY REPORT for March 2001
Bibliographic Services catalogued 3,706 titles in March 2001.
CATALOGUE ENHANCEMENT
Multivolume Clean-up Project: Mary Slinn and Linda Smith corrected 20 titles and 148 volumes.
THE TECHNICAL SERVICES WEB RESOURCES PAGE
NEW LINKS
A link to a "web of on-line dictionaries" has been added to the Dictionaries section of the site
http://www.yourdictionary.com/
A new cataloguing memo has been added. It concerns Reclassing F1001-1140 to
FC Classification
http://info.library.yorku.ca/techserv/ReclassingF1001-1140toFC.htm
COMPUTING
H. Fraser's workstation was upgraded to Windows 2000 Professional in early March. I would like to thank LCS and in particular Martin Alexander for his good work during the installation and follow-up process.
MEETINGS ATTENDED
Access to Collections Forum: March 1, 27 H. Fraser
Campbell Org. Survey March 15, 27 H. Pitka
Cataloguing Committee: March 14 D. Adams, H. Fraser,
C. Ohlers
IT Training Committee: March 6 H. Fraser
LMC: March 26 H. Fraser
STAFF
Eirene Landon, Linda Smith and I interviewed for the position of part-time cataloguing librarian. We were pleased to offer the position to Sue-Fang Li who will be joining the department in April 2001.
OTHER
In March 2001 we processed a very large number of In-Process requests. 427 items were located and catalogued. This is a record!
BIBLIOGRAPHIC SERVICES – STATISTICS
I. SEARCHING AND CATALOGUING WORKFLOW
Searching
|
COPY |
AG-CANADA |
OCLC |
|
FOUND |
695 |
855 |
|
NOT FOUND |
332 |
172 |
|
YR. TO DATE FOUND |
7,798 |
7,954 |
|
YR. TO DATE NOT FOUND |
4,259 |
1,609 |
Records Exported to AG-Canada and OCLC
|
NO. OF RECORDS |
MONTH/YEAR |
YEAR TO DATE |
|
Exported to AG-Canada and OCLC |
2,797 |
22,801 |
Monographs in Progress
Number:
Waiting to Be Searched 1/2 bay
Searched and Waiting to Be Catalogued 48 bays (6 bays are YBP books)
Searched Once and No Copy Found 0 bays
Searched Twice and No Copy Found 1 bay
Visual Materials in Progress
Titles received from SMIL: 45 (includes 0 donations)
Titles in progress: 288 (includes 0 donations)
NFB titles catalogued: 0 (Year to date: 0)
NFB titles searched: 0 (Year to date: 0)
Note: SMIL staff input 36 provisional records for items in the Toronto Public Library donation this month.
Rush Cataloguing
1. Number of Rush Cataloguing Requests
(Identified at Other Stages): 95
Year to date: 1,158
2. Number of Rush Requests at the In-Process Stage: 427
Year to date: 2,085
Found 373
Not Found 23
Returned (On-Order) 15
Returned (Already Cat.) 16
Time Spent Locating: 55 hours or 8 min./title
(3 people searching requests)
Minimal Level Cataloguing
Type of Record |
Number added to Yorkline |
Number added Year-to-date |
|
CPC |
0 |
0 |
|
GPC |
0 |
0 |
Government Documents Cataloguing
Titles catalogued include FR, SC – all formats: 515
Year to date: 2,650
Serials Cataloguing
Titles catalogued: 59
Year to date: 535
E-Journals Catalogued
Titles catalogued: 70
Year to date: 1,744
E-Books Catalogued (includes electronic version of York theses)
Titles catalogued: 123
Year to date: 806
Maintaining URLs
Records containing URLs checked: 4,082
Year to Date 30,774
Records containing broken links: 27
Year to Date 181
Links repaired: 25
Year to Date 159
URLs redirected: 10
Year to Date 51
Irreparable links: 2
Year to Date 21
URLs deleted: 4
Year to Date 23
Links to Holdings Problems in Webspirs Databases
|
Database |
No. Reported |
Resolved |
Not Resolved |
Problem |
International Political Science Abstracts |
4 |
1 |
3 |
1 Yorkline record contained the incorrect ISSN; 3 citations lacked the ISSN |
|
TOTAL |
4 |
1 |
3 |
|
|
TOTAL YEAR TO DATE ALL DATABASES |
10 |
3 |
6 |
ll. CATALOGUE ENHANCEMENT
A. Bibliographic Records
Maintenance on Bib. Records (Corrections) 189
Year to Date 3,649
Transfers 13
Year to Date 119
Error Reports 0
Year to Date 0
Withdrawals 275 (regular workflow)
Year to Date 944
0 (missing list)
Year to Date 463
Reinstates 5
Year to Date 74
Deleted from YL 191
Year to Date 9,065
Deleted from AG-Canada 483
Year to Date 8,415
Deleted from OCLC 0
Year to Date 25
Linking problems 0
Year to Date 12
Unlinked books linked 4
Year to Date 24
Titles recatalogued 75
Year to date 773
Titles reclassified 52
Year to date 410
B. Authorities
Authority deletions: 25
Year to Date 63
Authority Maintenance on Headings in Bibliographic Records: 326
Year to Date 709
Authority Maintenance on Authority Records: 10
Year to Date 40
New Authority Records Created: 2
Year to Date 10
Authority Records Loaded: 366
Year to Date 2,179
lll. OTHER
Special Projects
Project |
Withdrawn |
Withdrawn – Year to date |
Transfers To Storage |
Transfers To Storage - Year to date |
Weeded From Storage |
Weeded From Storage Year to Date |
|
Scott G |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
|
Scott 'GV' |
120 |
120 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
|
Scott H |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
|
Scott Map |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
|
Steacie Weeding |
83 |
3,209 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
|
Frost Weeding |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
|
Gov Docs Weeding |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
Books Requested from Storage and Transferred Back to Collections
Library |
Numbers Requested |
Year to date |
|
Frost |
1 |
9 |
|
Steacie |
5 |
45 |
|
Scott |
5 |
42 |
|
Journals |
2 |
19 |
|
TOTALS |
13 |
115 |
Numbers of Disks Copied for Books with Computer Disks
Format |
Original Disks Copies |
Original Disks Year to date |
Replacement Disks Copied |
Replac. Disks Year to date |
|
3 ½" |
4 |
53 |
0 |
5 |
|
5 ¼" |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
