LINKcat News

News Summary (4/1/2019-4/30/2019)

News (in case you missed it!)

 

• 4/30/2019 1,348 bibliographic records with no items attached (that were created before 1/1/2019) were deleted from the database.
• 4/30/2019 29,446 items and 3,674 bibliographic records (with only withdrawn items attached) were deleted in the monthly batch deletion of withdrawn items.
• 4/18/2019 As of May 2019 all Problem Item statuses will be included in the Annual Batch Deletion. See the LINK 2.0 Koha blog post for more details.
• 4/12/2019 The Levels of Cataloging Policy was updated. See the LINK 2.0 Koha blog post for more details.
• 4/10/2019 The following Shelving Locations were deleted from Koha: 2C (2nd Chance Collection) and PLC2F (Popular Library Collection, 2nd Floor) due to low use. See the minutes from the April ILS Committee meeting.
• 4/10/2019 The minutes from the April 3 ILS Committee Meeting are available online.
• 4/2/2019 The monthly LINKcat.info and LINKcat Mobile reports for March are posted.
• 4/1/2019 The monthly Koha reports for March 2019 can be found online.

 

2019 Change to Annual Batch Deletion reports

Twice a year, November and May,  we run cumulative reports of items that have certain problem item statuses, with a timestamp one year old or older,  that are eligible for batch deletion according to SCLS ILS procedure.  The batch deletion occurs each July.

This year, the Circulation Services Subcommittee recommended, and the ILS Committee approved a change to the reports.  As of May 2019, items with ALL problem item statuses will be eligible for annual batch deletion.

The following reports for the May 2019 ABD reports will be posted on the Reports page, under “Batch Deletion Reports”:

• ABD Damaged. Items with status of Damaged
• ABD Other . Items with status of AV Repair, Defect Reported, In Processing, Lost in Transit, Mending, Missing Inventory and Parts Missing.
• ABD Lost.  Items with status of Claims Returned, Lost, Missing and Trace.

We will send out another email with the regular ABD report information and links to updated documentation next month.

Thank you for your attention.

Cataloging policy clarification for music and audio cassettes

The following policy change was approved by the Collection Maintenance Subcommittee on March 13, 2019 and the ILS Committee on April 3, 2019:

• Levels of Cataloging Policy: Under PERM category: change “Music cassettes” to “Music and Audio cassettes”

This was done to clarify the policy. At some point in the past, we stopped providing full OCLC MARC cataloging for both music cassettes and books on cassette, so cassettes were removed from the Sound Recordings list in the Levels of Cataloging policy. However, in the PERM list, the policy only stated “Music cassettes,” and didn't explicitly say “Audio cassettes.” When we stopped cataloging books on cassette, we didn’t update the PERM section. We are now updating the PERM list to be clear that neither music cassettes or books on cassette receive full OCLC MARC cataloging.