One last thing I noticed,

"Your study seems to show that use of the BSR reduces the number of 
subject headings per record and thereby saves a considerable amount of 
time (ca. 25% for your sample)."

Actually, I am hesitant to draw the conclusion that the reduction in 
subject headings was the main reason for the time savings. I think an 
argument can be made that some of the other things, like not filling in 
fixed fields or measuring the spine, while individually small, might add 
up to a significant portion by themselves too. But that's technically 
speculation. We didn't have a way to count that like we could headings. 
And there were on average also fewer 1xx and 7xx on BSR, it just that the 
testing didn't show it was a statistically significant difference.


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On Wed, 7 Jul 2010, Laurence S. Creider wrote:

> Very interesting study, to which I would like to add a few comments.
>
> Your study seems to show that use of the BSR reduces the number of subject
> headings per record and thereby saves a considerable amount of time (ca.
> 25% for your sample).  This is great news for administrators, but the
> advantage to users is not so clear.  What we need next is a study that
> will take the additional cost of a full record and determine whether that
> extra work increases the discovery and selection of the resource by users.
> Difficult, but I think not impossible.
>
> Second, in order to reflect more accurately the sorts of things that
> original catalogers deal with, there should probably be more humanities
> and less scientific materials and more foreign language materials.  It is
> difficult to know whether these different materials would have
> significantly different savings from using the BSR record as opposed to
> the Full record.  Perhaps in literature and not in history?
>
> Thanks for sharing this and for providing good documentation.
>
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> Laurence S. Creider
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> New Mexico State University
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> On Wed, July 7, 2010 5:05 pm, D. Brooking wrote:
>> I gave a brief talk at ALA about a small time test of the BIBCO Standard
>> Record "floor" that was done at the University of Washington Libraries.
>> Here is the url for a more complete description of the test:
>>
>> http://staffweb.lib.washington.edu/committees/CPC/bsr
>>
>> This was just one test at one institution, so we would like to see if
>> others
>> could do their own tests of the BSR and share their results.
>>
>> If you have any questions, please email me or Joe Kiegel, [log in to unmask]
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