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> *Cc:* Elaine Hardy
> *Subject:* Re: [Evergreen-general] How do you keep your OCLC holdings up
> to date?
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> 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
: Thursday, February 9, 2023 8:03 AM
To: Evergreen Discussion Group
Cc: Elaine Hardy
Subject: Re: [Evergreen-general] How do you keep your OCLC holdings up to date?
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
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
Hello Benjamin, we use the OCLC Metadata api to keep our holdings up to
date in OCLC on a twice daily basis. It is a process based off of a custom
db table that just holds all the OCLC numbers found in our DB, and a few
bash and perl scripts. We don't try and track last copies being withdrawn,
We’ve been talking with some academic libraries about using Evergreen. An
important process for them is keeping their OCLC holdings information up to
date. For those of you that use OCLC, do you have and sort of automated
procedures that help you update your holdings information?
Benjamin
