Re: Record link maintenance

["Ruel Eskelsen" <reskelse@xxxxxxxxxx>]

We are a metro-public library with 6 branches and overflow storage.  We use
Link Maintenance to ensure the Bib record locations match the actual
attached Item records.  If we don't run this, we get a lot of Bib records
with location codes where there are no attached items anymore (lost or
stolen items not replaced, or weeded items), which impacts Create Lists of
Bib records by location.  This also supposedly makes the "Limit to Where an
Item is located" function in OPAC searches work more accurately.  I guess
the OPAC Search searches the Bib record location codes instead of the Item
record location codes.

Don't ask me why there are location codes in a Bib record and an Item
record, I've never had a satisfactory answer as to why there are Bib
location codes and Item location codes too, when they contain the same
data.

Hope this helps,

Ruel J. Eskelsen
Computer Services
Salt Lake City Public Library
209 E. 500 S.
Salt Lake City, UT 84111
801.524.8238
reskelse@xxxxxxxxxx
www.slcpl.lib.ut.us

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On 12/19/01 at 8:53 AM Christina Bellinger wrote:

>Dear Colleagues,
>	I am curious about the usefulness of the record link maintenance
>function in Innovative.  The University of New Hampshire has a main
>library,
>a storage building, and 4 branch libraries.  Within the main library there
>are also 6 general bibliographic locations.  Within each general location
>there are several specific locations.  If your library is set up in a
>similar way and is using the record link maintenance function, or tried it
>and decided not to use it, I would like to see your comments about it.  
>	Thank you in advance for your help!
>		Christina Bellinger
>		Head, Cataloging Unit
>		University of New Hampshire Library
>		18 Library Way
>		Durham, NH 03824
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