Hi Jen,

We dealt with this recently at SUNY Oswego.  Our solution was to manipulate
the data file after we extracted it from our LMS (Aleph/Ex Libris), taking
the holdings data from the 866$a and copying it into the 852$z (public note)
subfield.  Since the public note, if it exists, displays instead of the
dreaded "Local holdings available", this solved our problem quite nicely,
and ILL (which had slowed to a trickle) is returning to normal levels.

If you want more information about the nuts and bolts of how we accomplished
this, Natalie Sturr (sturr@oswego.edu) has excellent documentation; feel
free to contact her or me off-list.

Brian McDonald
Electronic Services Librarian
Warren Hunting Smith Library
Hobart & William Smith Colleges
Geneva, NY 14456

phone: (315) 781-4355
fax: (315) 781-3560
email: bmcdonald@hws.edu

On 10/23/07, Holman Jenifer S <holman.jeni@uwlax.edu> wrote:
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> 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.
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> Anyone else dealing with this situation?  I am hoping that maybe one of
> you has come up with a creative solution.
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> Thanks for reading,
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> Jen Holman
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> Murphy Library
> University of Wisconsin-La Crosse
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