Invalid character strings for autostats

Prepared by John Archer
October 6, 1997
Revised February 20, 1998

Character strings that cannot be included as part of one's 
initials or type of cataloging:

JUL
AUG
SEP
OCT
NOV
DEC
JAN
FEB
MAR
APR
MAY
JUN

These strings are reserved for the month.  Each month a
batch file searches for lines containing the first three letters
of everyother month and deletes it from the data.  This is done
to keep the data accurate for the entire year.  Why is this
necessary?  Suppose cataloging cataloges something in March.  It
is counted correctly in March, but in April when it is sent to
Book Repair it is again coded, this time by Book Repair to be
included in the monthly statistics.  This time the note
Cataloging place in the item record in March is again retrieved. 
To keep an accurate running total for the month of April, all
notes containing MAR are deleted.  This would include a note such
as MARC.

Please note also that all notes are converted to upper case
to process the data accurately.

Other strings that are deleted:
,
-
"
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AD ED
ADED
CLAIM
COPY
DEDUP
DONA
FLOPP
INCLUDE
KIT
LATE 
LIBRA
ONLY
PAGE
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PRINTING
PROF
REPL
RETAI
S&E
SEE
TRANS
UGL
USE
WITHD
SELECTOR