I am curious as to how your libraries are sending LDRs to OCLC.  We used
to manually update LDRs, but about three years ago got sold on the
notion of bulk exporting LDRs once a year and sending them to OCLC.  The
first time we did this, it worked pretty well, but results since then
have been disastrous.  We capture only summary holdings in an 866
instead of creating 853/863 pairs.  OCLC can no longer handle the 866
summary and is showing the much dreaded "local Holdings available"
message in WorldCat instead of our summary holdings.   While users in
WorldCat can click on the hyperlinked "local holdings available" message
to see our full holdings, apparently the message is not clickable in the
interlibrary loan module (I'm thinking that these LDRs are mainly used
by ILL staff).  Our ILL requests have plummeted and we are in the
unfortunate position of having to go back and manually re-key upwards of
6000 LDRs.

Anyone else dealing with this situation?  I am hoping that maybe one of
you has come up with a creative solution.

Thanks for reading,

Jen Holman

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Jenifer Holman
Acquisitions Librarian
Murphy Library
University of Wisconsin-La Crosse
1631 Pine St.
La Crosse, WI 54601

phone: 608-785-8395
fax: 608-785-8639
email: holman.jeni@uwlax.edu
http://www.uwlax.edu/murphylibrary/
<http://www.uwlax.edu/murphylibrary/>