Our consortium also relies on each individual library to keep their own
holdings current if they so wish. Since OCLC numbers are unfortunately used
inconsistently in our catalog, we have a more manual way of doing things.
Using a data sync collection set up through OCLC, we submit one file for
At SPARK, it’s largely up to the libraries to do their own maintenance, and
since we just added Real Time Availability for several WorldShare clients we’ve
been trying to streamline things a little more.
We have report templates that give libraries a list of 035s for volumes added
or removed
We send files once a month to OCLC to update holdings. Chris Sharp will
have more info on how that happens. We haven't had any issues with the file
not being processed within a few days. We have had issues where passwords
have expired or something else prevents the files from going through. We
