Sometimes people ask or wonder what really happens in Cataloging. The Department cataloged 31,537 new titles so far this year, including doing 4,508 original records. Most of what we catalog is books (print and online): 23,436 including theses and dissertations. GPO retro cataloged 11,785 titles. That is a big plus for access to our government documents collection. 7,032 titles of the 31,537 are online resources.
Breakdown by format, which shows the variety of material we catalog:
• Books = 22,782
• Serials = 4350
• Integrating Res = 107
• Visual Mat = 318
• Sound Rec = 277
• Scores = 99
• Maps = 2947
• Theses/Diss = 654
• Kits/Mixed = 0
• Manuscripts = 0
• Collections = 2
• Other = 1
Authority reports
For FY2010 so far: 15,969 bibs have been edited. That is a lot of MERLIN records that have been improved! 2,405 new authority records have been added to MERLIN, too. This is on top of what we get via our authority vendor.
NACO
NACO stats (through February), show 401 new authority records added to WorldCat. Last year we added 303 for the whole year. These numbers are from the official stats posted on the NACO web site.
MERLIN
2,464 volumes have been transferred + 17,873 volumes transferred to UMLD. We have a number of transfer and withdrawal projects, which is why our withdrawn statistics are up: 16,713 volumes have been withdrawn, compared to 14,022 for all of last year.
In addition, 117 volumes were reinstated and 110 replacement volumes were processed.
Projects
At one time there were more than pre-2008 10,839 temporary MARCIVE records for MU government documents in MERLIN. Now there are only 6,815!
We changed the way we process OCLC Bibliographic Notification reports, so we don’t know the number of table of contents and subject headings added to MERLIN. What we do know is that in March 5,314 record updates were processed.
Production continues to be strong – which is good!
Statistics don’t show the whole picture. From the numbers, you can’t tell the time spent in tracking down good subject headings, responding to requests from others, and participating in committees that benefit us all.
You guys rock!