“Zerox” has a low probability of being found in your catalog--but a quick search in your catalog will show if you need to correct the typo or not. If you do find “Zerox,” the typo would probably be in the publisher field as “Zerox University Microfilms” or “Zerox Education Publications,” or as a note, such as “Library has Zerox copy.”
for “Automobl” in OhioLINK retrieved 9 results, a couple in French language, with two of the hits in English for the subject misspelled as “Automobliles.” That typo could drive away your users from the material you have available on Automobiles.
“Agricutur*” can be a typo for Agriculture, Agriculture’s, Agricultural, Agriculturalists, etc., and has a high probability of being a typo in your catalog. The correct spelling is a jumble of letters and forgetting the "el" is common--What the 'el ...?!
The typo “Progess” for Progress retrieves 73 hits in OhioLINK, with about 26 in the title field. Truncating the typo as “Progess*” retrieves 120 hits, adding plenty of non-English titles to the results. Terry Ballard's "Typographical Errors in Library Databases" list at http://faculty.quinnipiac.edu/libraries/tballard/typoscomplete.html reports only American English typos.
“Microfrom” for Microform has a high probability of being a typo in online catalogs. A recent search of OhioLINK resulted in 191 retrievals. The term Microform (and the typo!) is usually found in subfield h of the 245 field in MARC records, being the medium or general material designation (GMD).
My mother used to feed us chives as children, gathering them from the garden, their soft purple tops bobbing, snipping them with scissors into little sections, and sprinkling them over cottage cheese. We understood that they were "good for us," but didn't really mind. It was much later I achieved the knowledge that chives were members of the Onion Family, which only made them seem friendlier still. OhioLINK yields 25 instances of Achive*, making it a typo of "high probability" on the Ballard list. Approximately a third of these are typos for archive, archives, etc.; the rest are for words like achieve. Related typos include: Acheiv*, Achievment*, Achievemnt*, and Achieven*. (Drawing of a chive plant from Wikimedia Commons.)
How much Woood* would you say we should chuck in all our catalogs? Perhaps you should chew on that one awhile yourselves, but eager beavers across the land could surely dam up any access problems concerning this typo in no time flat. I should probably point out, however, that woodchucks, also known as groundhogs (being solitary, subterranean squirrels of a sort) have little in common with beavers besides the word wood. OhioLINK turned up four cases of Woood* and one each of Woudl, Wwould*, Coud, Woudn't, and Shoudn't, along with four instances of Shoudl. (Take care when it comes to the elision of the l, though, particularly in works from the 17th century—most strikingly the play by Sir George Etherege, She Wou'd if She Cou'd.) These are typos of low or lowest probability, but they would, could, and should be corrected wherever they happen to occur. (Woodchuck shucking a nut from Wikimedia Commons.) P.S. Happy Birthday, Woody!
