2. What are we indexing at RCPL?
Deaths in The State newspaper
Deaths in The Palmetto Leader
The Lake Murray Magazine
Columbia Metropolitan (1995-1998)
County Focus (2003)
Greater Columbia Business Monthly
(1995-1998)
Lake Murray-Columbia (Mar 2006 - Present)
5. Transcribe the newspaper (longhand)
Excel (or Excel) input
Quality control
Tab delimited text file
Marc edit
Upload into Community Resources database
Public access
8. Machine readable cataloging
record - Marc
980 Name (e.g. Smith, John)
981 Maiden Name
982 Other Information (e.g. infant son of John Smith)
983 Source (e.g. The State)
984 Notice Information
$a Obituary/Notice data (mm/dd/yyyy)
$b Page
$c Column
985 Place
986 Death date
987 Death Place
988 Notes
989 Obituary/Notice year