Community Resources Database

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)

How Do We Get:
From here… to here.

The Process

 Transcribe the newspaper (longhand)
 Excel (or Excel) input
 Quality control
 Tab delimited text file
 Marc edit
 Upload into Community Resources database
 Public access

Excel file - 1966

Text file

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

Comres upload – Marc Edit

Community Resources Record

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