[SOLAR-L] Survey to help plan for Solar's future

[berek@tds.net]

Hi folks.  I think everyone would agree that Solar has grown a lot faster than support could address. We are attempting to devise better methods to address the backlog.
As things stand presently, one of the biggest headaches is in triaging incoming bib loads because of the number of records that create false uniques during loading.  I'm working with Joh Forest and Barbara McDade to address this.  In the meantime, however, I have a brief survey whose results will help direct the future course.  Please do respond and send your responses to me at berek at tds.net.  I promise to share the results.

1-Library Name
2-Person responding

Q.1: do you currently use Millennium to catalog new items?

Q.2: Do you import records from Solar or Mainecat into your local system?

Q.3: If not would you if you had more training?

Q.4: If you do not catalog in Millennium, would you do so if you received more training?

Q.5: If we create a cleanup file of your less than perfect records in Solar which of the following options would you choose?
A-Suppress them and train me to clean them up and import them into my local system.
B-nuke them and just leave the good ones?

Q.6: Add any additional thoughts/feedback here.



  As things stand now, we have a large number of brief records, records with incorrect 010 or 020 fields or records with misspellings that cause mismatching. Our hope is to get as many people on board with shared cataloging through Millennium so the influx of bad bib records will diminish and eventually cease.  I'm now a veteran of two library cleanups (Boothbay Harbor and Hartland), so I know it's a slow process, but the end results not only benefit the state, but your patrons as well.

Regards,
John Clark

--
John R. Clark-storyteller and librarian.
"my inner reality makes Twin Peaks 
look like Mr. Rogers Neighborhood."