SWAN Member Library Staff:

Thank you again for your patience and cooperation during yesterday's rebuild. We accomplished most of what we wanted, though there are some pending changes we are still working on.

Here is a summary of the bibliographic changes we were able to complete as a part of this rebuild:

• Removed GMDs from 214,840 records
• Removed 40,289 invalid 001 fields from 39,695 records
• Removed over 2 million 9xx junk fields from 759,260 records
• Removed 445,584 projected release dates and Fast, BISAC, and Sears subject headings from 215,758 records
• Standardized 7,640 Title Control Numbers
• Performed 409,282 item edits and 47,827 call number edits

Time contraints prevented us from accomplishing everything initially projected, but we intend to continue bibliographic cleanup over the coming weeks. For example, the removal of release dates and unused subject headings only covered about 4/5 of the database. We will complete this work a little at a time and then begin removing price information from ISBN fields and cleaning up 856 URL fields. What remains is of a much smaller scale than what was accomplished this weekend and can be doled out slowly as indexing bandwidth allows without interrupting regular operations.