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20/04/2005
Solutions For Crap Programs
Scope notes with a difference: 'Do not use this heading. Use 67845. When merging has been reinstated transfer these record to 67845 and delete this heading'. Ways to cope crappy technology. All the records from that mess up have had their multiple wrong headings removed and the correct heading put on. It's just that it's only one in a series of changes of name. At least I knew not to merge the next set. I found all the varieties of the next heading, and where a heading only had a small amount of records I manually removed the wrong headings from the records and add the correct heading. When the heading is down to no records I delete it. There were six headings, now we're down to two, but the correct heading has 700 odd records and the incorrect record has nearly 1400 ... I'm not doing that many manually!!! And I can't merge the headings. So I just add a scope note and maybe it'll get done one day. The correct heading has a proper scope note and 'use for' headings and it's all marc formatted and it even has indicators! Even if a space does display as a 0 ..............
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