LINKcat News

News Summary (3/1/2024-3/31/2024)

News (in case you missed it!)

• 3/27/2024 The minutes from the March 20 Discovery Interface Subcommittee Meeting are available online.
• 3/27/2024 20,406 items and 1,962 bibliographic records (with only withdrawn items attached) were deleted in the monthly batch deletion of withdrawn items.
• 3/27/2024 4,139 bibliographic records were newly cataloged and/or updated in the database between 2/29/2024 and 3/26/2024.
• 3/26/2024 See the LINKcat News blog post for information about the moratorium on changes to existing bibliographic records, which starts Saturday, April 20.
• 3/22/2024 Registration for the ILS Evaluation Vendor Demos is now open.  Please register online.  For more information on the demos, please visit the ILS Evaluation 2024-2025 webpage.
• 3/20/2024 The minutes from the March 13 Collection Maintenance Subcommittee Meeting are available online.
• 3/20/2024 The minutes from the March 12 Circulation Services Subcommittee Meeting are available online.
• 3/6/2024 Registration is now open for the Circulation Refresher: Reports webinar scheduled for March 27 at 1:30 pm via Zoom.  Please register online.
• 3/5/2024  The monthly Bibliovation reports for February 2024 can be found online.
• 3/4/2024 The monthly LINKcat.info and LINKcat Mobile reports for February 2024 are posted.
• 3/1/2024 See the ILS Evaluation 2024-25 page for information on ILS Evaluation events and timeline.

 

Moratorium on changes to existing bib records April 20 through around April 29

SCLS and the Madison catalogers are currently planning an authority control update project that will update all of the existing OCLC bibliographic records in our database with up-to-date author, subject, genre, and uniform title (series) headings. During this time, Madison cataloging staff cannot overlay or edit existing OCLC bibliographic records.

What this means for you right now

Starting Saturday, April 20, if you submit changes to Madison on the following ILS Work Request forms:

Request to Add ISBNs or UPCs to Bibs

Report Problems with Bib Records

Report Duplicate Bib Records

those changes will be held by Madison until the next week or following week. The changes will be done after the project is completed the next week. Unfortunately, we don't have an exact end date at this time, but it should by the end of the next week.

 During this time, you can continue to:

• Create BSEs and link items
• "Send to catalog" from GetIt for both bib records and item records
• Create, edit, withdraw, and delete item records for items owned by your library
• Create LOCAL, PERM, or GEN records

What this means for you during the next week

Around April 27 and 28, there may be a day (or possibly two days) where we will ask you to refrain from creating BSEs and using "Send to Catalog" from GetIt to create new bib records while the updated bibliographic records are loaded into Bibliovation by LibLime. We will send an email out about this as soon as we have solid information. Unfortunately, we don't know exactly how long it will take for all of the updates to be made to the bib records and how long it will take LibLime to load the changed bibs back into Bibliovation.