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Dragonfly
Fall 2003 -- Volume 34, Number 4 |
With the goal of relieving libraries from having to key their holdings information into multiple systems, NLM has been working to establish several batch update programs to output data from SERHOLD to external systems or accept data from other systems. NLM recently announced its plans for a transfer of journal holdings information from OCLC WorldCat to SERHOLD! Deena Acton of NLM Serial Records provided details in a message to the DOCLINE-L email discussion list:
"NLM continues to work with OCLC to provide data exchange of holdings records between DOCLINE and OCLC. As you know, NLM exported holdings records in July which OCLC loaded successfully on August 16 for libraries authorizing us to do so. However, libraries that share OCLC Codes are not able to use SERHOLD to OCLC batch update. As an alternative, these libraries may want to use the upcoming OCLC to SERHOLD Batch Update.
[Editor's note: this upcoming OCLC to SERHOLD Batch Update is in the opposite direction from the recently released SERHOLD to OCLC Batch Update.]
On August 26, NLM successfully loaded 6,693 holdings records for our pilot library, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Additional work is needed to provide the functionality within DOCLINE. We plan to release OCLC to SERHOLD Batch Update capabilities early next year. Stay tuned to DOCLINE-L for further announcements.
Additional information can be found in the following FAQs and sections of Help:
- When will OCLC to SERHOLD Batch Update be available?
(http://www.nlm.nih.gov/services/doc_batch_update_oclctoserhold_availability.html)- My library is part of a larger institution that use one OCLC code (ex. MWF) with multiple holding library codes for each "branch" (ex. MWFA and MWFB). Can my library still participate in SERHOLD to OCLC Batch Update?
(http://www.nlm.nih.gov/services/doc_batch_update_serholdtooclc_multiple_oclcids.html)- What is planned for Batch Update capabilities?
(http://www.nlm.nih.gov/services/doc_batch_update.html)Thanks to UNC Chapel Hill for participating in the testing during the entire span of this project!"
In related news this past spring, we announced OCLC's ability to accept from NLM batch transfers of SERHOLD data so that DOCLINE libraries' journal holdings can be displayed in WorldCat (see "SERHOLD to OCLC Batch Update Is Here!" in Dragonfly, Spring 2003, 34(2) at http://nnlm.gov/pnr/news/200304/batch.html). A few months later we celebrated the success of the first SERHOLD-to-OCLC journal holdings transfer (see "First SERHOLD-to-OCLC Batch Update Is a Success!" in Dragonfly, Summer 2003, 34(3) at http://nnlm.gov/pnr/news/200307/oclc.html). The upcoming ability to send batch data transfers in the other direction, from OCLC to SERHOLD, will be an important step towards libraries' being able to eliminate re-keying of journal holdings information.
Dragonfly, Fall 2003- Volume 34 Number 4
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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