LINKcat News

News Summary (11/1/2023-11/30/2023)

News (in case you missed it!)

• 11/29/2023 The ILS Report for October/November 2023 is available online.
• 11/28/2023 The minutes from the November 14 CSS Meeting are available online.
• 11/28/2023 26,488 items and 3,070 bibliographic records (with only withdrawn items attached) were deleted in the monthly batch deletion of withdrawn items.
• 11/28/2023 7,513 bibliographic records were newly cataloged and/or updated in the database between 9/18/2023 and 11/27/2023.
• 11/21/2023  The minutes from the November 15 DIS Meeting are available online.
• 11/15/2023  The minutes from the November 8 CMS Meeting are available online.
• 11/15/2023 The Lost and Paid at Another Library and the Damaged and Paid at Another Library reports for October 2023 have been posted to their pages.
• 11/10/2023 The Lost Over 6 Months and Paid report for October 2023 has been posted on that web page.
• 11/9/2023 The Annual Purge of Old Charges report has been posted for 2023. The deadline for review is 5:00PM on Monday, November 20.  Please read the information in the Circulation Manual, Section XII Circulation and Statistical Reports Part D Annual Purge of Old Charges for details about this annual process.
• 11/2/2023  The registration is open for the Linking User Group scheduled for December 14, 2023 from 10 - 11:30 am via Zoom.  Register online.
• 11/2/2023  The monthly Bibliovation reports for October 2023 can be found online.
• 11/1/2023 The monthly LINKcat.info and LINKcat Mobile reports for October 2023 are posted.
• 11/1/2023 The Serials Clones records for 2024 are complete. You can find the Serials Clones 2024 memo online.

Full cataloging moratorium COMPLETE

All updated records have been imported, and the full cataloging moratorium has been lifted. You can resume cataloging and creating BSEs!

Full cataloging moratorium starting TOMORROW, Saturday, November 4

We are continuing our work on the authority control project to update existing OCLC bibliographic records in our database with up-to-date author, subject, genre, and uniform title (series) headings.

LibLime will be importing and overlaying bibliographic and authority records. This means that there needs to be a full cataloging moratorium this weekend with no work done on bib records (including BSEs). This will start tomorrow, Saturday, November 4.

During this time, staff cannot:

1. Create, edit, or overlay records (BSE and MARC).
2. Use "Send to Catalog" from GetIt to create bib records.
3. Create new LOCAL or PERM records.
4. Delete or merge bib records.

During this time, staff can continue to:

1. Create, edit, withdraw, and delete item records for items owned by your library.
2. Use "Send to Catalog" from GetIt to create item records.
3. Work with Purchase orders in GetIt (as long as you don't send bibs to the catalog).
4. Work with Receiving and Invoicing in GetIt.
5. Update and create GEN records.
6. Do serials checkin in Serials.

This is planned to be completed for Monday, November 6. Once completed, cataloging and acquisitions staff will receive an email (should be early in the morning) when it is ok to resume creating new BSE records and sending to catalog from GetIt.