1. An Analytical Study of Typographical Errors in OPACs and Corrective Measures Surendran Cherukodan G.Santhosh Kumar Sheeja N K Cochin University (CUSAT) Humayoon Kabir S University of Kerala

2.  Deals with Typographical errors in OPAcs  Typographical errors are the mistaken addition, deletion, transposition or substitution of letters or other characters in a word, or the addition or deletion of spaces within or between words (Gardner, 1992).  The problem of spelling mistakes is a global phenomenon (Ballard 2008). Introduction

3.  The spelling mistakes occurred during data entry work are left unnoticed by library professionals  Typos affects the quality of OPACs  Block access to an available item

5. Terry Ballard

6.  Whether the problem exists ?  The word “management’ was chosen for search – example  Search conducted on local, national and international library OPACs by deliberately typing in possible variation of the word  It was found that “management” is wrongly entered in several OPACs

9.  in-house  When importing  When source itself having error

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13.  Human Intelligence- Proof reading, careful attention –in-house, importing, copying.  Check your catalogue with the list of word produced by Ballard  Receiving authority records from Co- operative programmes- NACO  Listserv –Blogs - etc