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All Inactive Projects
 

This document summarizes the status of technical services projects that are completed or inactive.

For explanations of priorities, see Priority definitions



 
Dpt  Sub
Dpt  
Project
Name  
Priority  Target
Date  
Contact  Other
Contributors  
Notes  
Acq
 
Exchange claims and clean up
4-Completed
12/01/06
Lisa Maybury
 
 
Acq
 
CJK Migration from RLIN to OCLC
4-Completed
10/01/06
Grace Lin, Yan-yun Mi
 
 
Acq
 
Clean-up of old Chinese order/bib records
4-Completed
12/01/06
Grace Lin
 
Worked w/Xian Wu & Lireng Chen
Acq
 
ITSO Enhancements
4-Completed
12/01/06
Scott Wicks
Anna Korhonen, Pete Hoyt
Built in flexibility for how orders are directed out of ITSO
Acq
 
Extending EDI with COUTTS
4-Completed
12/01/06
Gary Branch
Pete Hoyt
 
Acq
 
Claiming & clean-up of 2000-04 YBP monographs
4-Completed
07/01/06
Dawn Johnson
 
 
Acq
 
Transfer of Austrian series orders
4-Completed
02/01/07
Gary Branch
 
 
Acq
 
UK approval plan
4-Completed
09/30/07
Anna Korhonen
Fred Muratori
 
Acq
 
EDI connections with Coutts UK
4-Completed
08/30/07
Gary Branch
 
 
Acq
 
EDI connections with Coutts/UK
4-Completed
10/30/07
Gary Branch
 
 
Acq
 
Review of Ambassador series orders
4-Completed
04/30/07
Natalya Pikulik
 
 
Acq
 
EDI profile for Busca
4-Completed
06/01/07
Gary Branch
Pete Hoyt
Awaits scripts
Acq
 
Claiming of overseas firm orders
4-Completed
06/01/07
Gary Branch
 
 
Acq
 
Chinese claims backlog
4-Completed
01/01/99
Chun-mei Lyons
 
 
Acq
 
Indonesian claims backlog
4-Completed
01/01/99
Ben Abel
 
 
Acq
 
Cancellation of ILS orders, reorder if requested
4-Completed
06/01/07
Gary Branch
 
 
Acq
 
Transfer of ILS continuation orders to new vendor
4-Completed
02/01/07
Gary Branch
 
Vendor out of business
Acq
 
Transfer of Swiss series orders
4-Completed
08/01/06
Gary Branch
 
 
Acq
 
CJK Migration from RLIN to OCLC
4-Completed
10/01/06
Grace Lin
Yan-yun Mi
 
Acq
 
Data enrichment report for Karen
5-Inactive
04/01/07
Anna Korhonen
 
 
Acq
 
Building EDI capabilities with AKATEEM
5-Inactive
01/01/99
Boaz Nadav-Manes
 
Waits for their system
Cat
 
Native American Collection (HFL) microforms
4-Completed
03/01/07
Margaret Nichols
 
In conjunction w/DMS
Cat
 
OCLC reclamation clean-up
4-Completed
06/01/08
Lois Purcell
 
 
Cat
 
Native American Collection (HFL) serials
4-Completed
09/01/07
David Banush
 
 
Cat
 
Cox gift
4-Completed
12/01/06
Mark Simon
 
less than 50 vols.
Cat
 
18th and 19th century American city directories
4-Completed
08/01/06
Margaret Nichols
 
 
Cat
 
Bailey Hortorium seed catalogs
4-Completed
09/01/07
David Banush, Nancy Banfield
 
 
Cat
 
Sinatra gift
4-Completed
06/30/08
Jim Alberts
 
ca.4,000 recordings
Cat
 
Lindseth Russian fable collection
4-Completed
06/01/07
Margaret Nichols
Yelena Kurbanova
less than 2000 titles
Cat
 
Native American Collection (HFL) rare and medium rare
4-Completed
06/01/07
David Banush, Margaret Nichols
Marge Robinson
 
Cat
 
Polish Solidarity pamphlets
4-Completed
10/01/07
Margaret Nichols
Yelena Kurbanova
 
Cat
 
HSX backlog
4-Completed
03/01/07
Margaret Nichols
 
ca.100 vols.
Cat
 
Lavoisier books (Hist of Sci)
4-Completed
03/01/07
Margaret Nichols
 
ca.110 vols.
Cat
 
Hist of Sci backlog
4-Completed
03/01/07
Margaret Nichols
 
Alpha: 250 vols. ; Gift: 100 vols.
Cat
 
Uncataloged Hotel Transfers
4-Completed
06/01/08
Margaret Nichols
 
 
Cat
 
Project to train full-time physical processing staff to do inputting
4-Completed
11/01/07
Pedro Arroyo
 
Jan and Kaye will do 10 hrs. of inputting each week until further notice.
Cat
 
Arabic approval plans
4-Completed
10/01/07
Pedro Arroyo
Ali Houissa, Jena Bakula, Pete Hoyt, Gary Branch
Invloves setting up MARC record receipt and loading scripts. Sulaiman completed ; Leila is in process
Cat
 
Harrassowitz MARCNOW script
4-Completed
08/03/07
Pedro Arroyo
Pete Hoyt
The script adjusted to create only one set of 948s in Aug,07.
Cat
 
Friedman FAL gift
4-Completed
12/01/06
Pedro Arroyo
 
ca.20 titles
Cat
 
Witchcraft e-books
4-Completed
08/01/06
Margaret Nichols
 
 
Cat
 
Naiad Press books (HSX)
4-Completed
09/01/06
Margaret Nichols
 
 
Cat
 
Masturbation books
4-Completed
04/01/06
Margaret Nichols
 
 
Cat
 
Holahan gift
4-Completed
06/01/06
Pedro Arroyo
 
 
Cat
 
German house/techno music scene serial publications
4-Completed
04/01/06
 
 
 
Cat
 
Find Databases clean-up
4-Completed
08/01/06
 
 
 
Cat
 
Ellen and John Wells gift
4-Completed
08/01/06
Pedro Arroyo
 
 
Cat
 
Wordsworth recon
4-Completed
01/01/08
Margaret Nichols
 
Conversion of entire collection 1/2 complete as of 08/21/07
Cat
 
Archives Reports & Pamphlets
4-Completed
06/30/07
Margaret Nichols
 
Cornell publications
Cat
 
Harris Barcoding and Inventory
4-Completed
12/31/08
Liz Muller
 
Barcode, inventory, and catalog as needed some 40K volumes in the Harris collection. 1600 bound-with volumes remain to be cataloged (8/1/07).
Cat
 
FAL Honors theses
4-Completed
12/30/07
Dorothy Stiefel
Laurie Stevens
Backlog of 78 undergraduate theses
Cat
 
Herbst backlog (Hist. Sci.)
4-Completed
03/01/07
Margaret Nichols
 
ca.200 vols.
Cat
 
Bulgarian, Serbo-Croation, Czech gift
5-Inactive
01/01/99
Pedro Arroyo, David Banush
 
ca.2,000 items
Cat
 
Universirty and archival publications "west wall"
5-Inactive
01/01/99
Margaret Nichols
 
 
Cat
 
Gallica analytics
5-Inactive
01/01/99
David Banush
 
No useful metadata available
Cat
 
Voeller books
5-Inactive
01/01/99
Margaret Nichols
 
ca.50 vols.
Cat
 
Rare alphabetical backlog
5-Inactive
01/01/99
Margaret Nichols
 
 
Cat
 
Adelmann photostats (bound)
5-Inactive
01/01/99
Margaret Nichols
 
ca.120 vols.
DMS
 
Empty Item Records: Post-LC Recon Smart Barcode Sweep
4-Completed
09/01/04
 
 
Assignment and generation of smart barcodes for 30,702 empty item records not covered in Mellon LC-Recon processing.
DMS
 
NetLibrary Suppressed Records
4-Completed
05/01/03
 
 
BatchCat and manual deletion of 18,526 records for unowned titles, to which access was discontinued in 2002.
DMS
 
Deletion of Elsevier E-Titles
4-Completed
02/01/03
 
 
Manual marking for subsequent batch deletion of ca. 300 titles to which CUL no longer has access.
DMS
 
Local series Notes
4-Completed
04/01/02
 
 
Identification of legitimate character strings and manual cleanup of ca. 100 local series note fields (BIB 899s)
DMS
 
Hotel Withdrawal Project
4-Completed
03/01/02
 
 
Over 100 titles processed on a project basis.
DMS
 
Dance Materials Shelved in Olin
4-Completed
03/01/02
 
 
Transfer of 37 titles from Olin to Music.
DMS
 
Accompanying Material for Disks Shelved in Asia Reading Room
4-Completed
03/01/02
 
 
Clarification of relevant procedures and cleanup of existing records.
DMS
 
Unclassified Newspaper Call Numbers
4-Completed
03/01/02
 
 
Addition of "No call number" to ca. 100 MFHD call number fields for non-Mann titles.
DMS
 
Vet Library MFHD Cleanup
4-Completed
03/01/02
 
 
Identification of unclassified serial MFHDs lacking 852 $h and MFHDs with invaled 852 $m. Manual cleanup done at Mann.
DMS
 
Cornelliana Call Numbers
4-Completed
02/01/02
 
 
Deletion of hyphen/space in 115 call numbers.
DMS
 
Asia AV Location Notes
4-Completed
12/01/03
 
 
Addition of public note to applicable MFHDs for Echols, South Asia, and Echols AV material to indicate those items now shelved in the Olin Library media Center.
DMS
 
Uris Serial Withdrawal Project
4-Completed
12/01/03
 
 
Withdrawal of some 400 serial titles from uris Library.
DMS
 
NYDigit Cleanup
4-Completed
02/01/04
 
 
Correction and updating of more than 500 records to provide access to digitized versons of titles in the New York State historical Literature collection (with help from Jim Spear and Laurie Stevens)
DMS
 
Wason/Echols Sheet Maps
4-Completed
01/01/05
 
 
Creation of report and addition of local series note (899) to records for 19th century sheet maps of East and Southeast Asian areas (with help from Jena Bakula)
DMS
 
Africana Cleanup
4-Completed
03/01/05
 
 
Readjustment of MFHD and ITEM records for Africana microfiches, microfilms, videos, and a few serials following the return of these materials to thenewly renovated Africana Library.
DMS
 
Item Records for SERV,REMO locations
4-Completed
03/01/05
 
 
Deletion of 1201 ITEM records.
DMS
 
Book Number Cleanup
4-Completed
04/01/05
 
 
Removal of erroneously repeated $i delimiters in migrated MFHD records.
DMS
 
Harris Call Number Cleanup
4-Completed
01/01/05
 
 
Remove $i from call number.
DMS
 
Vet Withdrawals/Transfers
4-Completed
06/30/08
Deb Warfield, Barb Tarbox
 
Withdrawal/transfer of 3600 monographs and estimated 500 serial titles from Vet to Annex.
DMS
 
Pamphlet Recon
4-Completed
12/31/06
Hana Dedina
 
Conversion of the remaining 9,000 titles.
DMS
 
Olin "Medium Rare" Transfers
4-Completed
12/31/07
Deb Warfield
 
Transfer of an estimated 30,000 titles from Olin to RMC Annex.
DMS
 
Olin/Kroch Serials Barcoding Project
4-Completed
12/31/07
Barb Tarbox
 
Barcoding of, and item record creation for all unbarcoded, not currently received serial volumes in Olin and Kroch libraries. Estimated 54,000 titles.
DMS
 
Microform Recon
4-Completed
06/30/07
Hana Dedina
 
Conversion of the remaining 6,600 titles.
DMS
 
Mann Special Collection/Annex Tranfers
4-Completed
06/01/07
Zoe Stewart-Marshall, Debra Warfield
 
Medium Rare processing for estimated 1500 volumes transferred from Annex to Mann Special Collections.
DMS
 
Cornell Thesis Recon
4-Completed
04/30/07
Hana Dedina
 
Conversion of the remaining 20,000 titles.
DMS
 
Copy Number Cleanup
4-Completed
06/01/07
Barb Tarbox
 
Implement manual monthly cleanup of problems from copy number batch jobs.
DMS
 
Video-disc Call Numbers
4-Completed
02/01/03
 
 
Designation changed from Video-disc to Videodisc.
DMS
 
245 Subfield $h Cleanup Project
4-Completed
04/30/08
Debra Warfield
Jena Bakula, Peter Martinez
Cleanup of estimated 1,000 245 subfield $h open/close brackets errors.
DMS
 
Olin AV Location Changes
4-Completed
02/01/03
 
 
Flip of Olin, Olin (Closed Stacks), and Uris locations for AV material to new Olin AV location.
DMS
 
Area Call Numbers
4-Completed
02/01/03
 
 
Deletion of spaces in "ar" designation (affects call number indexing). Estimated 580 instances.
DMS
 
Ingenta Cleanup
4-Completed
01/01/03
 
 
Update of local series statement for ca. 200 titles.
DMS
 
Math Oversize Symbols
4-Completed
12/01/02
 
 
Removal of + and ++ from 852 $k and 852 $m. Estimated 4300 instances.
DMS
 
CXJSP Record Update
4-Completed
08/01/03
 
 
Manual cleanup of 353 records with obsolete 5xx notes, URLs, and MFHDs.
DMS
 
Lost/Missing Withdrawals: Report
4-Completed
07/01/03
 
 
Implementation of monthly CTSBULK, MS Access, and Snap routine to generage automated report for selectors.
DMS
 
OKU Withdrawals Count: Report
4-Completed
05/01/03
 
 
Implementation of monthly CTSBULK routine to generate automated report for OKU Access Services.
DMS
 
Engineering Withdrawal Project
4-Completed
01/01/02
 
 
Over 200 titles processed on a project basis.
DMS
 
U.S.Congressional Serial Set Barcoding and Transfer
4-Completed
07/01/08
Barb Tarbox
Sally Lockwood
Barcoding and transfer of 4200+ (Pre-1908) items to Medium Rare Annex
DMS
 
Digital Registry
4-Completed
06/18/07
Jena Bakula
 
As part of the Digital Registry Implementation Team, development and maintenance of metadata components in the CUL DR.
DMS
 
Music/AV item status changed to no-circ
4-Completed
06/01/07
Zoe Stewart-Marshall
 
Change 51,000 Music/av item status to no-circ.
DMS
 
MARC Records Sets Maintenance
4-Completed
08/08/07
Jena Bakula
 
Establish routine for maintenance of MARC Records Sets online.
DMS
 
Olin 403 transfers
4-Completed
02/29/08
Debra Warfield
 
Transfer of selected titles to Olin,403
DMS
 
JSTOR Annex transfers
4-Completed
06/30/08
Barb Tarbox, Ken Tiddick
 
Transfer of backfile runs of 349 Olin print serial titles (13,129 volumes) to the Annex. Initial search for print versions complete, 3/14/08. Project completed 6/19/08.
DMS
 
JGSM Withdrawal Project
4-Completed
08/01/04
 
 
Over 4000 monograph and serial volumes pulled from JGSM, Fall 2001.
DMS
 
Location Changes: Asia Material
4-Completed
07/01/04
 
 
Automated location changes for 25,745 Asia Q-V titles and 26,656 Asia pamphlet titles stored on Olin 8th floor.
DMS
 
Item Copy Number Cleanup (Retrospective)
4-Completed
07/01/04
 
 
Identification and cleanup of incorrectly migrated copy numbers in item records, as well as similar problems created by Bulk Import since migration from NOTIS (ca. 440,000 records total). Monthly batch job to clean up future problems now in place.
DMS
 
Initial Article Cleanup: Program and Report
4-Completed
05/01/04
 
 
Implementation of monthly CTSBULK routine to fix or report incorrectly tagged initial articles in title fields.
DMS
 
ACLS Holdings Cleanup
4-Completed
04/01/04
 
 
Correction of erroneous call numbers and tagging on 261 MFHD records.
DMS
 
E-Record Maintenance: Cleanup
4-Completed
03/01/04
 
 
Identification and cleanup of 899 and 948 fields on e-journal records, as well as removal of duplicate records.
DMS
 
Factiva Record Cleanup
4-Completed
02/01/04
 
 
De-duplication of ca. 140 records.
DMS
 
CIS Record Load Cleanup
4-Completed
02/01/04
 
 
De-duplication and update of holdings for 132 titles from the Oct. 2003 BIB record load.
DMS
 
De-Mulver Project: Cleanup
4-Completed
01/01/04
 
 
Suppression of ca. 100 undeletable e-resource MFHDs for de-mulvered titles.
DMS
 
Electronic Text Center Holdings
4-Completed
02/01/01
 
 
Manual cleanup of notes in 50+ MFHDs.
DMS
 
Lavor Union Headings
4-Completed
12/01/01
 
 
Manual cleanup of typos in LC subject headings for labor unions in 174 BIB records.
DMS
 
Project Missing
4-Completed
01/01/06
 
 
Reinstatement of 1314 missing titles.
DMS
 
Fine Arts c.2 Withdrawls
4-Completed
03/01/06
 
 
Withdrawal of 150 titles identified as c.2.
DMS
 
Fine Arts to Annex Transfers.
4-Completed
06/01/06
 
 
Transfer of 28 split serial titles to the Annex.
DMS
 
Authority Records: Local vs. National Records
5-Inactive
01/01/99
Jim LeBlanc
 
Involves the identification and de-duplication of local authority headings also represented in the national file.
DMS
 
Authority Records: Resolution of 010 $a / $z Conflicts
5-Inactive
01/01/99
Zoe Stewart-Marshall
 
Involves the identification and deletion of cancelled authority records based on the presence of matching LCCNs in the Voyager authority file
DMS
 
MFHD Fixed Field Problems
5-Inactive
01/01/99
Jim LeBlanc
 
Left over from migration. Identification and cleanup of MFHDs with 008/25 = 1 (should be 0) and MFHDs with Leader/06 = ? ("crossdressers")
DMS
 
Wason Pamphlet Call Numbers
5-Inactive
01/01/99
Jim LeBlanc
 
Cleanup of inconsistent spacing (affects call number indexing).
DMS
 
Recon:Annex Pockets
5-Inactive
01/01/99
Zoe Stewart-Marshall
 
Retrospective conversion of 246 titles shipped to Annex without catalog records or barcodes.
DMS
 
Barcodes with Bad Check Digit
5-Inactive
01/01/99
Zoe Stewart-Marshall
 
Involves machine-generated barcode numbers mapped into Voyager prior to Dec. 2002. May or may not be a problem in future LMS.
DMS-BP
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OCLC Institutional Records: re-export of backfile of Law records (i.e. thru 3/31/08)
4-Completed
06/06/08
Jim LeBlanc
Pete Hoyt, Jean Pajerek, Lois Purcell
Will re-export these IRs in order to give Law a more concise, unresolved file for cleanup. Thirteen files totaling 180K records sent to OCLC 6/5/08.
DMS-BP
 
Addition of 948 Subfield Data to E-Journal Records
4-Completed
03/01/03
David Banush
 
 
DMS-BP
 
Africana Cleanup
4-Completed
03/01/05
Zoe Stewart-Marshall
 
Readjustment of MFHD and ITEM records for Africana microfiches, microfilms, videos, and a few serials following the return of these materials to the newly renovated Africana Library.
DMS-BP
 
Area Call Numbers
4-Completed
02/01/03
Zoe Stewart-Marshall
 
Deletion of spaces in "Ar" disignation (affects call number indexing). Estimated 580 instances.
DMS-BP
 
Asia AV Location Notes
4-Completed
12/01/03
Jim LeBlanc
 
Addition of public note to applicable MFHDs for Echols, South Asia, and Echols AV material to indicate those items now shelved in the Olin Library Media Center.
DMS-BP
 
ATLA Day Missions
4-Completed
09/01/02
Jim LeBlanc
 
Asia and Pacific Rim (Microform Analytics): Dataload
DMS-BP
 
Batch Extract of URL Data from PURL Server
4-Completed
03/01/03
Adam Chandler
 
A new extract in July 2005. The data will be extracted through LSTools in the future.
DMS-BP
 
Bibliothek der Deutschen Literatur
4-Completed
02/01/03
Jim LeBlanc
 
Dataload
DMS-BP
 
Business & Industry Records
4-Completed
09/01/02
Jim LeBlanc
 
OPAC Suppression
DMS-BP
 
CISER Records
4-Completed
05/01/06
Keith Jenkins
 
Dataload
DMS-BP
 
CISER Old Records
4-Completed
05/01/06
Jena Bakula
 
OPAC Suppression
DMS-BP
 
CJK Original Script Records
4-Completed
01/01/01
Jim LeBlanc
 
Dataload
DMS-BP
 
CJK Original Script Records
4-Completed
12/01/01
Jim LeBlanc
 
De-Duplication
DMS-BP
 
CONS,OPT Locations
4-Completed
01/01/02
Jim LeBlanc
 
OPAC Suppression
DMS-BP
 
Creation of Small Test Database for Regressive Bulk Import/Export Testing
4-Completed
02/01/03
Jim LeBlanc
 
 
DMS-BP
 
CXJSP Records
4-Completed
03/01/03
Jim LeBlanc
 
Removal of "Available on Demand" and TIFF Notes.
DMS-BP
 
Decision Records from NOTIS
4-Completed
12/06/00
Jim LeBlanc
 
Dataload
DMS-BP
 
Defective Echols BIBs
4-Completed
03/01/04
Jim LeBlanc
 
Batch Deletion
DMS-BP
 
Digitale Bibliothek Deutscher Klassiker (DKV)
4-Completed
06/01/05
Jena Bakula
 
Dataload
DMS-BP
 
Early American Newspapers
4-Completed
01/01/05
Greg Nehler
 
Dataload
DMS-BP
 
Early English Books Online
4-Completed
05/01/03
Jim LeBlanc
 
Dataload; Feb/06 in 827 records added checkip string to 856 #u.
DMS-BP
 
Eighteenth Century (Microform Analytics)
4-Completed
03/01/02
Jim LeBlanc
 
Dataload
DMS-BP
 
Eighteenth Century Collection Online (ECCO)
4-Completed
01/01/04
Jim LeBlanc
 
Dataload
DMS-BP
 
E-Journal Multiple Versions Cleanup
4-Completed
02/01/03
David Banush
 
Maintenance
DMS-BP
 
Electronic Resources Records for UC
4-Completed
05/01/06
James LeBlanc
 
Record Extract
DMS-BP
 
Empty Item Records: Post-LC Recon Smart Barcode Sweep
4-Completed
09/01/04
Zoe Stewart-Marshall
 
Assignment and generation of smart barcodes for 30,702 empty item records not covered in Mellon LC Recon processing. Script enhancement completed June/07.
DMS-BP
 
E-Record Maintenance: Cleanup
4-Completed
03/01/04
Zoe Stewart-Marshall
 
Identification and cleanup for 899 and 948 fields on e-journal records, as well as removal of duplicate records.
DMS-BP
 
ERM Export Enhancement
4-Completed
04/01/06
Adam Chandler
 
 
DMS-BP
 
ESTC Records Extract for UC
4-Completed
06/01/06
Greg Nehler
 
Record Extract
DMS-BP
 
Find Database Records Update
4-Completed
03/01/06
Zoe Stewart-Marshall, Matt Connolly
 
Records updated with 948 $f "fd".
DMS-BP
 
Fine Arts Record Update
4-Compl