The effectiveness of copy cataloging at eliminating typographical errors in shared bibliographic records

Library Resources and Technical Services

Volumn 48, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 92-101

  Beall, Jeffrey ^a   Kafadar, Karen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

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2. Ibid., 12-13.
3. "The Dirty Database Test," American Libraries 22 (Mar. 1991): 97.
4. Jim Dwyer, "The Catalogers' 'Invisible College' at Work: The Case of the Dirty Database Test," Cataloging & Classification Quarterly 14, no. 1 (1991): 75-82.
5. Ibid., 80.
6. Terry Ballard, "Spelling and Typographical Errors in Library Databases," Computers in Libraries 12, no. 6 (1992): 14-17.
7. Terry Ballard and Arthur Lifshin, "Prediction of OPAC Spelling Errors through a Keyword Inventory," Information Technology and Libraries 11 (June 1992): 139-45.
8. Ibid., 142.
9. I b i d.
10. I b i d.
11. Sylvia A. Gardner, "Spelling Errors in Online Databases: What the Technical Communicator Should Know," Technical Communication 39 (1992): 50-53.
12. Ibid., 50.
13. Ibid., 52.
14. Ralph Nielsen and Jan M. Pyle, "Lost Articles: Filing Problems with Initial Articles in Databases," Library Resources & Technical Services 39, no. 3 (1995): 291.
15. Ibid., 292.
16. Barbara Nichols Randall, "Spelling Errors in the Database: Shadow or Substance?" Library Resources & Technical Services 43, no. 3 (1999): 168.
17. David Bade, The Creation and Persistence of Misinformation in Shared Library Catalogs: Language and Subject Knowledge in a Technological Era (Champaign, Ill.: Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2002).
18. Ibid., 4.
19. Ibid., 26-27.
20. Ibid., 27.
21. I b i d.
22. Ibid., 5.
23. Ibid., 3.
24. Terry Ballard, Typographical Errors in Library Databases. Rev. Mar. 7, 2002. Accessed May 1, 2002, http://faculty. quinnipiac.edu/libraries/tballard/typoscomplete.html.
25. I b i d.
26. W. Nelson Francis and Henry Kucera, Frequency Analysis of English Usage: Lexicon and Grammar (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1982).
27. Ballard, "Typographical Errors."
28. John W. Tukey, Exploratory Data Analysis (Reading, Mass.: Addison-Wesley, 1977), 39-41.
29. George W. Snedecor and William G. Cochran, Statistical Methods (Ames, Iowa: Iowa State University Press, 1980).
30. Robert McGill, John W. Tukey, and Wayne A. Larsen, "Variations of Box Plots," The American Statistician 32, no. 1 (Feb. 1978): 12-16.