***Re creative solution:  If someone has, I'd like to hear it too :-)

***We're doing ours by hand.  I did train a student to do the 853/863 part,
just by redoing the 866 and putting info from the summary into the 863.  That
saves me some time, plus I still get to check her work and correct any errors.
(Very few so far).

Jeanette L. Skwor
Cofrin Library, Serials Dept.
UW-Green Bay
2420 Nicolet Drive
Green Bay, WI 54311

-----Original Message-----
From: SERIALST: Serials in Libraries Discussion Forum [mailto:SERIALST@LIST.UVM.EDU] On Behalf Of Holman Jenifer S
Sent: Tuesday, October 23, 2007 12:05 PM
To: SERIALST@LIST.UVM.EDU
Subject: [SERIALST] LDRs

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
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