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Topping Off Mann Library
Mann celebrated a milestone in its building renovation project with a “topping off” celebration on April 26 on the Ag Quad.  The event, which marked the closing in of the building’s roof and new atrium, featured remarks by College of Human Ecology dean of research Sharon Kay Obendorf, CALS associate dean Bill Fry, and architect Beyhan Karahan, as well as faculty and students.  Remarks were followed by a ceremonious hoisting of Cornellia the cow (bedecked with evergreen in keeping with true topping-off tradition), a beam signing, and a lively celebration featuring Cornell ice cream and Ithaca root beer. 

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Updated CUL Holdings in OCLC
Jim LeBlanc

As many of you will recall, last November we began a project to resynchronize Cornell’s holdings in the OCLC WorldCat database.  The major aspect of this project is now complete—OCLC has reloaded 4,636,000 updated and corrected Cornell title/holdings into its database.  With a couple of exceptions, these include all titles represented in Voyager that we are allowed to share with utilities. Although our contacts at OCLC have remarked that Cornell’s data is “very clean” compared to that submitted by other member libraries, there were still over 70,000 Cornell records (ca. 1.5%) that were not “reclaimed” by OCLC’s reclamation program.  Part of this failure stems from inadequacies in OCLC’s (necessarily) complex record-matching algorithm for large batch projects; the other part is, of course, human error on our part over the past thirty years or so.  LTS’s Cataloging and Database Management Services departments plan to work together to develop automated and (gulp!) manual means to work through the backlog of unloaded holdings.    Next week LTS will return to its weekly export of new cataloging to OCLC, which was suspended late last November.  It will take us two to three weeks to get caught up.  For more on the importance of this initiative for record-sharing and resource-discovery, see the article “Updating Cornell Holdings in OCLC” in the March issue of Inside CUL  Thanks to Jena Bakula, Peter Hoyt, Lois Purcell, Barb Tarbox, and others who worked on this project during the past several weeks.

Annex Move Statistics for April 2006 

Library

Number of Vols. Moved

Asia

 18,128

From Olin to RMC (medium rare) through LTS

   5,713

Olin

 33,317

Miscellaneous

      304

 

 

Total

  57,462

 

 

Grand total

291,345

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