Michelle, I don't know the ReSourceMate catalog program. Is there a way you can remove the catalog records of the books you are not keeping in a batch process, and not have to do so one by one? Are there barcodes on the books that you can scan into a file and then upload them to the library system to delete those records?
Hebrew College moved to a new campus in January, a smaller campus. We went from what had been a few years ago a 90,000-volume library down to about 14,000 volumes. Preparing for the move we had selected the books we are keeping by putting colored stickers on the books. I hired some teenagers scan the barcodes for those books we had selected to keep into a number of files, and I changed the holding records for the books we are keeping to a new collection in the library system using a batch program. I was then going to delete all of the remaining records in the old collection with another batch program. During the move we were told by the movers that we had packed more books than we had room for. I knew that beforehand but was told we could bring them over to the new building and deal with weeding more out later. We had no space in the new building to store the books so the last two days of the move we were told we had to pull out an additional 4-5000 books. Those included books that had the holding records already changed to the new collection. I am now in the processing of scanning again all of the barcodes of the books that we kept for the library and again changing the holding records to our new collection. I will then use a batch process to remove the 50-60,000 records from catalog that are in the old collection that are no longer here. By the end of the summer, I should be finished. Harvey [1585833722787] Harvey Sukenic Library Director 617.559.8757 telephone 617.559.8751 fax 617.559.8750 library main desk hsuke...@hebrewcollege.edu<mailto:hsuke...@hebrewcollege.edu> https://urldefense.com/v3/__http://www.hebrewcollege.edu__;!!KGKeukY!0QI8KgwHD8gBIhBc7Jj6yVT5ECxS0gtoxihjlfIWvPsHaW7leCrJtv5vBc0uX1V_mnkLLutSfBzRU3LRbxHa0doOm5LSng$ <https://urldefense.com/v3/__http://www.hebrewcollege.edu/__;!!KGKeukY!0QI8KgwHD8gBIhBc7Jj6yVT5ECxS0gtoxihjlfIWvPsHaW7leCrJtv5vBc0uX1V_mnkLLutSfBzRU3LRbxHa0dp6QhQ9lA$ > Rae & Joseph Gann Library Hebrew College 1860 Washington Street Newton, MA 02466 Reimagining Jewish Learning and Leadership for an Interconnected World Follow Hebrew College on Facebook<https://urldefense.com/v3/__http://facebook.com/hebrewcollege__;!!KGKeukY!0QI8KgwHD8gBIhBc7Jj6yVT5ECxS0gtoxihjlfIWvPsHaW7leCrJtv5vBc0uX1V_mnkLLutSfBzRU3LRbxHa0dpzoZgDzg$ >, Instagram<https://urldefense.com/v3/__http://instagram.com/hebrewcollege__;!!KGKeukY!0QI8KgwHD8gBIhBc7Jj6yVT5ECxS0gtoxihjlfIWvPsHaW7leCrJtv5vBc0uX1V_mnkLLutSfBzRU3LRbxHa0dp6l5F-Jg$ >, YouTube<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUhjv2S4TW_7rm3ha-tlinQ__;!!KGKeukY!0QI8KgwHD8gBIhBc7Jj6yVT5ECxS0gtoxihjlfIWvPsHaW7leCrJtv5vBc0uX1V_mnkLLutSfBzRU3LRbxHa0dpT55tAmg$ > | Listen to Hebrew College's Speaking Torah podcast<https://urldefense.com/v3/__http://hebrewcollege.edu/podcast__;!!KGKeukY!0QI8KgwHD8gBIhBc7Jj6yVT5ECxS0gtoxihjlfIWvPsHaW7leCrJtv5vBc0uX1V_mnkLLutSfBzRU3LRbxHa0dpo-kJriw$ >
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