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- Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 10:09:00 -0500
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- From: Nikki Meyer <MEYERNL@VUCTRVAX.BITNET>
- Subject: Re: Books for College Libraries (BCL3)
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- >We are looking for information for a special project dealing with a
- >comparison of current holdings with the collections depicted in "Books
- >for College Libraries" - 3rd edition. Apparently this publication is
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- >Kathleen Olivier (TECH1)
- >Northern Michigan University (UPRLC, Inc.)
- >Marquette, Michigan
- >Bitnet: adko@nmumus
- >Ma Bell: (906)227-1279
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- Several years ago Vanderbilt embarked on a long journey in which we tried
- to do exactly this using the BCL2 tape. I couldn't hope to give the
- details here, but if enough interest, I could reconstruct our method.
- Simply, we used SAS to do a bunch of manipulations to the tape and then
- compare titles, some standard numbers, whatever we could think of, to
- eliminate dups with our database. I cannot remember what out "hit" rate
- was, but we were able to provide our bibliographers with a listing of
- titles that Vanderbilt "did not" own. We had many of these since we found
- no foolproof way to elimiante dups, but I think it was useful in the long
- run. I was not aware that BCL3 had come out already. Needless to say, I
- am not prepared for this ordeal again. I always intended to write up our
- experiences with the last version but unfortunately never got around to it.
- I suppose that time is rapidly approaching! If enough interest, I can try
- to figure out what we did (it was soooooo long ago) and share.
-
- Nikki Meyer
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