Software and/or materials required

• Sierra

• Internet browser

Project summary/background

Typos occur in library catalogs. There is even a website devoted to finding them!

This project is to search for the typos found to occur most frequently and correct them.

Project instructions

• Open the spreadsheet Typos-Highest Probability. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/113e13H80No5tS0MWGBzbGqWBRVcG3Ija0XQWp3Nk3Yk/edit?usp=sharing

• Put your initials in some of the rows. This helps keep others from editing the same data at the same time.

• Do a Keyword search on the word in the Typo column, including the * if present. The * acts as a wildcard character in the search.

  • I’ve included some suggestions for the correct spellings in the Notes column.

• Find the typo in each record retrieved. It could by anywhere in the record.

• IGNORE any typos in the 245 $a or $b, any typo followed by [sic], and the names of people/groups (who may intentionally use a misspelling as their name).

  • Note: You can use the ‘find in page’ function in Sierra. When a record is open in the Cataloging module, use CTRL-F to open a ‘find in page’ search box. Enter the typo in the box and press Enter. The typo will be highlighted in yellow.

    • Tip: You have to x out of the search box before you edit the record.

    • Tip: The yellow highlighting may persist from record to record. If this becomes unbearable, reboot Sierra to make it go away.

• When you’ve corrected the typo(s), Save the record.

• Note: The Keyword index does not immediately re-index itself, so the records you’ve corrected will continue to appear in search results for that typo until the next day.

• Rinse and repeat!