I agree with Charles. If your library updates/keeps your database in synch with OCLC holdings regularly, to follow/use OCLC latest records/practices to overlay whatever you have make more sense and hopefully less work in the long run.

Yvonne

Yvonne Zhang

AUL for Tech. Services

Univ. Library

Cal Poly Pomona

909-869-3107

Hi Lynne,

What about doing a record overlay? This should keep the order and checkin history intact. We are an Aleph library so this is what I would do.

Charles

Charles McElroy

Serials Department Head

Florida State University Libraries

711 West Madison Street

Tallahassee, FL  32306

Phone: 850-645-7911

Fax: 850-645-5671

Email: cnmcelroy@fsu.edu

I need some feedback on  how others handle this situation. We have serial holdings on a MARC record I’ll call Record A in our local system.  At some point after we imported that record from OCLC, they (OCLC) merged that record into what I’ll call Record B.  My choices now are: 1) keep our holdings on Record A in our system, not bothering with Record B at all, or 2) import Record B into our ILS, relink the items to that record, and delete Record A.  Choice 2 is technically correct; choice 1 is easier and maintains info like checkin history.

What do the rest of you do?  I’m in a big cleanup project, making sure our ILS and OCLC records and holdings correspond, and I’m running into a few of these.

Lynne Weaver

Serials Coordinator

Lipscomb Library

434 947-8396 Phone      434 947-8134 Fax

lweaver@randolphcollege.edu

Randolph College

Founded as Randolph-Macon Woman's College in 1891

2500 Rivermont Avenue

Lynchburg, VA 24503

www.randolphcollege.edu

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