Quality Control in a Shared Online Catalog Database:

The problems of maintaining quality control in shared bibliographic databascs supporting multiple online catalogs present participating libraries with significant challenges. This paper identifies and categories the types of bibliographic problems encountered in one shared database, that of the SOLINET LAMBDA system, and presents guidelines and commentaries developed by the LAMBDA Users Group in its efforts to correct existing problems and maintain a high level of quality in the LAMBDA database. These guidelines and commentaries should prove of interest to other libraries in similar environments.