Examples of Clean Up Options

Update critical search and access points
• Replace obsolete subject headings
• Update ”politically sensitive” subject headings
• Remove redundant subject headings
• Correct subject heading subfield placement
• Rearrange subject fields

Standardize call number prefixes
We can standardize & consolidate call number prefixes: Change “VC,” “VT,” & “VID” to “VHS” and “92” to “B”, etc.

Standardize Cutters
• Use first three letters of authors last name
• Use full last name for Biographies Update local holdings information
• Prices
• Shelving Locations
• More Remove unwanted terminology

Remove Juvenile Fiction & Juvenile Literature

Move articles to the beginning of titles
Change: Berenstain Bears and baby makes five, The To: The Berenstain Bears and baby makes five

Correct non-filing indicators

Move or delete 526 Reading Studies Information
• Accelerated Reader
• Reading Counts
• Other

Add awards notes
Add ALL Major “Awards” to properly formatted titles

Fix punctuation and syntax
• Ensure that commas are followed by a space
• Remove double spaces and improper slashes

Update / Fix Leader
• Material type validation so that your video is not a “book”
• Publication information
• Language code

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