Folks: UC Berkeley recently contracted an unnamed vendor to supply Hebrew language records to our catalog. These records were accepted without review, and perhaps even more unfortunately, the records were created using our call letters, CUY, in the 040 coded as full level records.
14 of the 16 records included in this batch contain a number of errors at a high rate of occurrence. Many of these errors are obvious, though some are not. The remaining two are mostly okay for student copy cataloging, but a closer inspection with the piece in hand may reveal that these two contain unacceptable errors. I have every intention of correcting these records once I have the pieces in hand, but there is a chance you may encounter them before that I get my hands on them. If this happens, please feel free to correct any and all errors you find. For those of you authorized to execute merges might find it easier to simply catalog the books from scratch, then to merge the faulty CUY records. I apologize for any inconvenience this episode has created. The OCLC record numbers for the batch: 1) 1342054439 2) 1342054449 3) 1342054205 4) 1342054445 5) 1342054212 6) 1338042559 7) 1338042548 8) 1342054441 9) 1342054446 10) 1338042573 11) 1338042489 12) 1338042426 13) 1342054444 14) 1342054443 15) 1342054440 16) 1338042412 Bob Talbott Hebraica cataloger/Curatorial Assistant to the Judaica Collection UC Berkeley 250 Moffitt Berkeley, CA 94720 Lue musaraba shu biburueada Bilgameshe nam habadabkure.
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