Thanks, everyone!  The transition within OCLC was seamless, of course – it was just a question of how to handle the ILS record.  Not being the one here who deals with importing records, I forgot about the concept of overlay. I’ll ask my cataloger to bring in Record B  and that should do it.

 

 

 

Lynne,

I think going with choice 1 is fine if it suits you and your library. The original OCLC number of Record A will migrate to the 019 field in Record B, and OCLC will automatically transfer your holdings to Record B. Searching the old OCLC number will bring patrons and staff to the new record in OCLC, so you won’t lose anything there, and if you ever do a reclamation project the match will be made to the new record as well.

-Stephanie

 

 

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

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