[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Deleting items in Evergreen and updating enteries in WorldCat

[George Tuttle]

Two questions:
How do libraries within an Evergreen consortium maintain their WorldCat
entries as they weed and delete items from the catalog?  
To what extent has your library been able to automate the process? 

For example, this is the process for deleting weeded item in the Piedmont
Regional Library System in Georgia:
1)	Frontline staff scan weeded items into a copy bucket. 
2)	Automated services staff convert bucketed items to the pre-delete
status of Discard/Weed.
3)	Automated services run a weekly report on last copies within the
Piedmont Regional Library System, and Cataloging updates the WorldCat
entries.
4)	Cataloging deletes the Discard/Weed items list in the last copy
report.

I know how the process can be streamlined. For us, the biggest road block in
automating the process is that a large percent of ours records have non-OCLC
title control numbers. We are working on that.

Meanwhile, how do libraries weed & delete items and manage their obligation
to WorldCat?

George Tuttle
Computer Services Librarian
Piedmont Regional Library System
770-867-2762 x113
770-891-0654 (cell)
770-867-7483 (fax)
gtuttle at prlib.org