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

[Aaron Z]

We have a report that runs weekly which returns the following columns:


----- "Janet Royer" <janetr at ci.burlington.wa.us> wrote:

> From: "Janet Royer" <janetr at ci.burlington.wa.us>
> To: "Evergreen Discussion Group" <open-ils-general at list.georgialibraries.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, June 7, 2011 12:09:41 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern
> Subject: Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Deleting items in Evergreen and updatingenteries in WorldCat
>
> We are still very new to Evergreen so I would be interested in this
> as
> well.  On our old system, I was able to export a file of the MARC
> records for items being deleted and upload it to OCLC as a batch
> process
> so they can match and delete.  I haven't yet figured out how to get
> the
> MARC record file from Evergreen, but it's on my list of things to do.
> 
> Janet Royer
> SysAdmin/Circ Supervisor
>  
> Burlington Public Library
> 820 E Washington Ave
> Burlington WA  98233
> 360-755-0760
> janetr at ci.burlington.wa.us
>  
> -----Original Message-----
> From: open-ils-general-bounces at list.georgialibraries.org
> [mailto:open-ils-general-bounces at list.georgialibraries.org] On Behalf
> Of
> George Tuttle
> Sent: Tuesday, June 07, 2011 8:30 AM
> To: 'Evergreen Discussion Group'
> Subject: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Deleting items in Evergreen and
> updatingenteries in WorldCat
> 
> 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