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Dragonfly
Spring 2003 -- Volume 34, Number 2 |
DOCLINE libraries will very soon be able to list their serial holdings in OCLC WorldCat, automatically and free of charge, through the batch file transfer service that has been developed by NLM and OCLC. This is an excellent way to assist your fellow librarians in non-health science libraries which do not have access to DOCLINE. If you decide to participate, you will be helping your local library colleagues obtain articles from health journals for their patrons-thereby contributing to better availability of health information for the public.
It's easy to participate! If you library has its own OCLC code, just go to your DOCUSER record, select the "Codes" tab, and, in the Batch Update Authorization field, select "NLM is authorized to send a copy of my library's holdings to OCLC" -- and then, this July, your SERHOLD holdings data will be batched into a file and sent to OCLC. Updates that you make after that will then be sent to OCLC on a quarterly basis. Make this simple change to your DOCUSER record today, so that your library's data are included in the first batch transfer, scheduled to take place shortly after the 4th of July holiday.
Unfortunately, libraries that are part of a larger institution with one OCLC code (i.e., MWF) with multiple holding library codes for each "branch" (for example, MWFA and MWFB) can not participate in this service. This is because the batch transfer would delete holdings for other units that share that same OCLC code. NLM has provided details about this at http://www.nlm.nih.gov/services/doc_batch_update_serholdtooclc_multiple_oclcids.html
For more information about the SERHOLD to OCLC Batch Update, see the FAQ at http://www.nlm.nih.gov/services/faqdocline.html#serholdbatchupdate
SPECIAL NOTE FOR OREGON AND WASHINGTON LIBRARIES:
You who are in Oregon and Washington medical libraries will
remember that before DOCLINE migrated to the Web and the
Washington Library Network (WLN) database was merged into the
OCLC WorldCat database (independent events that happened at about
the same time, just before the turn of the century), your SERHOLD
holdings data were automatically transferred into WLN (for
Washington) and OCLC (for Oregon). Oregon and Washington
libraries had a long-standing tradition of sharing their holdings
information with their colleagues in other types of
libraries.
This new SERHOLD to OCLC Batch Update service will allow you to share your library's holdings information with your communities once again. And now, all other DOCLINE libraries can join in this sharing. However, your participation in this SERHOLD to OCLC Batch Update will not be automatic, even if you formerly shared your SERHOLD data with WLN or OCLC. You must update your DOCUSER record in order to participate-and now is the time to do it, so that your holdings are transferred this coming July.
SPECIAL THANKS to the task force members who helped lobby OCLC to work with NLM on developing this service (see "SERHOLD and the Public's Access to Health Information: An Update" in Dragonfly, Spring 2001, http://nnlm.gov/pnr/news/200104/serhold.html) and to the libraries that served as beta test sites:
Dragonfly, Spring 2003- Volume 34 Number 2
(posted on PNRNews on May 30, 2003)
This publication is funded in whole with Federal funds from the National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, under Contract No. N01-LM-1-3516.
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