[IUG] RE: Mailto link for bib record error reporting

["Schupbach ,William" <w dot schupbach at wellcome dot ac dot uk>]

Maurine McCourry wrote "Inspired by a thread this week on Autocat, I've
added a "mailto" link on our bib_display.html page through which I hope
catalog users will report cataloging errors on specific bib records. See

http://library.hillsdale.edu/record=b1071268
 for an example. [...]"

Excellent.  But as Maurine says, it would be better if integrated into
the OPAC by III.

I submitted an enhancement request last year, for a feedback button
which would enable patrons to give feedback on such things as
cataloguing errors, supplementary information about archival records,
information about provenance, likes and dislikes etc.  A similar service
is available in Amazon, the Internet Movie Database, and in Ex Libris
Aleph as implemented at e.g. McGill University ("Correction request"
label displayed in record), so this is hardly earth-shattering.  It is
of course quite different in purpose from the readers' reviews service
that III is introducing, and which is of limited use in special
libraries.

I believe it did not make it to the ballot, but I shall be submitting
something along the same lines this year.
William Schupbach 
Wellcome Library, 210 Euston Road, London NW1 2BE, England 
E-mail: w dot schupbach at wellcome dot ac dot uk 
Catalogue: http://catalogue.wellcome.ac.uk/search~S5/X 
[British registered charity no. 210183] 
  



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