Custom Cleanup

Professional management, applied expertise and collaborative workflow are the keys to unqualified successes in data cleanup. We fully utilize our hard-earned knowledgebase to unlock the great potential that only clean, content rich data can provide to an automated library.

Our services will increase circulation and reduce administrative workloads — without losing sight of the importance of every record, field, subfield, space and dash — and deliver results per your timetable, guaranteed.

General
Custom Data Cleanup

Exceptional patron services require clean, content rich data. Our 30 years of experience allows us to guarantee that we will meet or exceed your highest expectations. The list of updates and potential improvements to data is yours to define. Listed below are the topical areas a cleanup covers.

  • Eliminate duplicate record
  • Correctly merge data
  • Standardize call numbers and collection codes
  • Upgrade brief records to complete, content rich records
  • Update and upgrade search points
  • Eliminate mixed material, bibliographic conflicts
  • Update/Fix all fields, including bibliographic, fixed and holdings

Data Conversion/Migration

Moving from one automation system to another is hard on any library. Doing it right is mission critical and our sole dedication to data handling means that Mitinet does automation systems conversions better than anyone — including your new automation vendor.

  • Guaranteed error free holdings migration
  • No-loss data guarantee
  • Integrated Mitinet Custom Data Cleanup options, such as total database updates
  • Fast turn times guaranteed to meet your schedule
  • Equal or less cost than conversion through your automation vendor

Union
Migration and Cleanup

Subpar or non-conforming data in a union catalog can effectively destroy every potential benefit whose factors were the reason for creating a union catalog. Odds are very good that if your data was not professionally handled by dedicated experts when the union catalog was created, the results have you doing more work than ever before.

If you are migrating to a union catalog, a call to Mitinet will save you from costs and work yet to be discovered. If you are currently mired in a union catalog that is not optimized, call us and discover the true benefits of a shared catalog.

  • Expert data deduping
  • Expert unmerge/remerge using best practice methodology and your specifications
  • Expert consultation on reality-based standardization and global data changes
  • Collaborative review of your specifications to data reviewed findings
  • Integrated Mitinet Custom Cleanup Options
What Makes This Service Special?
  1. Comprehensive review of data by MARC experts
  2. Collaborative workflow — your input and sign-off before any changes to data
  3. Over 30 years of library data experience — academic, public and K-12 libraries
  4. Superb project management focused on quality and meeting your timetable.
  5. Equal or better pricing for higher quality services
  6. Guaranteed satisfaction
Clients & Quotes

When I heard at AASL that Mitinet could do Lexile matching for me, I knew that my project of Lexiling my school library was going to be much easier than I anticipated. ...

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Christine Sturgeon
Teacher Librarian/Technology Integrationist
Manson Northwest Webster Community Schools

After telling my husband who well knows of my technology skills, he believes anyone able to guide me through a computer process meanwhile preserving my sanity is a gem indeed! High praise. ...

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Anonymous Mitinet customer

Lots of librarians can tell you Mitinet does what they say they do - make Lexile numbers go into the MARC records seamlessly. Since I don't have access to my own MARC records, I can't speak to that. But I can tell you that Mitinet is flexible and understanding of client's needs even when it doesn't align to what they normally do. ...

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Christine Sturgeon
Teacher Librarian/Technology Integrationist
Manson Northwest Webster Community Schools

I finished the task you helped me start as well as completed another whole batch by myself! Your directions were wonderful and easy to follow. ...

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Central Columbia Elementary School Library