<div dir="ltr">Thanks for sharing this! It reminds me of a similar phenomenon I noticed a couple years ago and reported to OCLC Quality Control.<div><br></div><div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><div><div>It appears OCLC went about converting Latin abbrevations [s.l.], [s.n.], and [n.d.] to the RDA phrases such as "place of publication not identified," but in some cases, other initialisms in place or publisher names containing <span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline">S. L., S. N., or N. D also got swept up in the change:</span></div><div><br>#71309469<br>Lemberg : ǂb Druck des S. L. Flecker, ǂc 1862.<br></div><div></div>Lemberg : ǂb Druck des Place of publication not identified Flecker, ǂc 1862.<br><br>#874816261<br>New York ; ǂa Oxford : ǂb Oxford University Press for the U.N.D.P, ǂc 1992. <br></div>New York ; ǂa Oxford : ǂb Oxford University Press for the U.date of publication not identifiedP, ǂc 1992.<br><br>#874495167<br>Karnal : ǂb N.D.R.I., ǂc 1972.<br>Karnal : ǂb Date of publication not identifiedR.I., ǂc 1972.</div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">#2252304</div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">Bismarck, N.D. : ǂb Dept. of Agriculture.</div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"Arial Unicode MS",Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:16.003px">Bismarck, date of publication not identified : </span>ǂb <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"Arial Unicode MS",Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:16.003px">Dept. of Agriculture.</span></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"Arial Unicode MS",Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:16.003px"><br></span></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"Arial Unicode MS",Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:16.003px">It appears OCLC QC has taken action to fix these and other instances not long after I reported them, and I don't know how widespread the problem was to begin with. But keep an eye out in case any have slipped through OCLC's algorithms or into your local institutions' catalogs. </span></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"Arial Unicode MS",Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:16.003px"><br></span></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"Arial Unicode MS",Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:16.003px">Matt</span></div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Feb 22, 2018 at 3:32 PM, Andrews, Susan <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:susan.andrews@ubc.ca" target="_blank">susan.andrews@ubc.ca</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif">Subject:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif"> FW: early printed books : yikes<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d">Dear Rare Book people,<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d">First of all my apologies for the delay in passing this on to you. I was away on vacation, then got inundated with urgent cataloguing issues to deal with when I got back.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d">I started to think this e-mail thread was too stale to pass on, but you can always delete something you already know all about!<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d">Many if you will be on the OCLC-CAT listserv, so this will be old news.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d">For others, you might want to read the following, and to check samples of your records in OCLC to see if they got affected.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d">Best wishes, Sue.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:8.0pt;color:#1f497d">Sue Andrews<u></u><u></u></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:8.0pt;color:#1f497d">Principal Cataloguer<u></u><u></u></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:8.0pt;color:#1f497d">University of British Columbia Library<u></u><u></u></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:8.0pt;color:#1f497d"><a href="https://maps.google.com/?q=2198+Health+Sciences+Mall,+Vancouver+BC+V6T+1Z3&entry=gmail&source=g">2198 Health Sciences Mall, Vancouver BC V6T 1Z3</a><u></u><u></u></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:8.0pt;color:#1f497d">Tel. <a href="tel:(604)%20822-4995" value="+16048224995" target="_blank">604-822-4995</a> Email:
<a href="mailto:susan.andrews@ubc.ca" target="_blank">susan.andrews@ubc.ca</a><u></u><u></u></span></i></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US"> OCLC-Cataloging [<a href="mailto:OCLC-CAT@OCLCLISTS.ORG" target="_blank">mailto:OCLC-CAT@OCLCLISTS.ORG</a><wbr>]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Bremer,Robert<br>
<b>Sent:</b> January-30-18 1:58 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:OCLC-CAT@OCLCLISTS.ORG" target="_blank">OCLC-CAT@OCLCLISTS.ORG</a><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [OCLC-CAT] early printed books : yikes<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Thank you for letting us know about this issue. We will work on getting the needed adjustments made to all the affected bibliographic records.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Robert Bremer<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<b>On Behalf Of </b>Andrews, Susan<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, January 30, 2018 3:30 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> OCLC-CAT <<a href="mailto:OCLC-CAT@oclclists.org" target="_blank">OCLC-CAT@oclclists.org</a>><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [OCLC-CAT] early printed books : yikes<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">Hi folks,<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">First of all: sorry if this has been mentioned on this List already!!<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">I just wanted to alert you (and hopefully some programmer for OCLC!) to a problem I discovered yesterday when cataloguing an early printed book.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">I always get excited when I have a book with numbered columns (instead of pages or leaves) because I get to apply that lovely collation rule that talks about the extent of text
in terms of columns.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">At first when I searched OCLC to find matching copy I was confused by 300 fields that looked like there were illustrated versions of my book!<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">Then I realized that some program had
<i>unhelpfully</i> expanded “col.” (for column) to “color”. Now to be fair, this might have been the fault of a contributing library, but I did a quick search and found that it is now quite rampant in the database! It is hard for me to imagine that so many
libraries modified their local rare book records so dramatically.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">Here are some suspicious records to look at:<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">82679282 (Berkeley please check your copy)<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">367569195 (Brigham Young please check your copy)<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">702171855 (Yale please check your copy)<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">The holding/contributing libraries are very wide-ranging including both national libraries, and other major research libraries.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">I hope someone at OCLC has some way to reverse this damage! Specifically in 300 “a”, of course.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">Sue.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:8.0pt;color:#1f497d">Sue Andrews<u></u><u></u></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:8.0pt;color:#1f497d">Principal Cataloguer<u></u><u></u></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:8.0pt;color:#1f497d">University of British Columbia Library<u></u><u></u></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:8.0pt;color:#1f497d"><a href="https://maps.google.com/?q=2198+Health+Sciences+Mall,+Vancouver+BC+V6T+1Z3&entry=gmail&source=g">2198 Health Sciences Mall, Vancouver BC V6T 1Z3</a><u></u><u></u></span></i></p>
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<a href="mailto:susan.andrews@ubc.ca" target="_blank"><span style="font-style:normal">susan.andrews@ubc.ca</span></a><u></u><u></u></span></i></p>
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</blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><pre cols="72">-- <br>Matthew C. Haugen<br>Rare Book Cataloger<br>102 Butler Library<br>Columbia University Libraries<br>E-mail: <a href="mailto:matthew.haugen@columbia.edu" target="_blank">matthew.haugen@columbia.edu</a><br>Phone: 212-851-2451</pre>
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