Re: [IUG] Link Maintenance Missing Some Bib Records?

[VICTORIA GREENE <vg0001 at mail dot pratt dot lib dot md dot us>]

We have had a call in for some time on this issue.  We have had trouble
ever since we started automatic link maintenance.  I run it manually about
once a week to "catch up."  I am still exploring it with the help desk,
but apparently there is a process that is not sending records through the
automatic link maintenance.  We are still on release Silver.

Victoria W. Greene
Assistant Director for Information Technology
Wicomico Public Library
Salisbury MD


On Thu, 9 Nov 2006, Geoffrey Skinner wrote:

> We currently have call in for this problem and I would encourage other
> sites to do the same. About a year ago, we finally got our database into
> a state where we could safely run Link Maintenance  (updating according
> to item locations only). After running the manual link maintenance
> (Maintain Bibliographic Links) for a time, we requested that Daily Link
> Maintenance be set up and have been running that for the past nine
> months. Everything seemed to be updating okay until recently when I
> stumbled on a number of records that not only hadn't been updated
> automatically, but apparently couldn't be updated through Maintain
> Bibliographic Links. There may be some problem with records busied, but
> given the problems others are having, it sounds like a larger problem.
>
> Have others noticed a change since Rel. 2006? In our case, there may be
> more records left unchanged, but I can't really tell.
>
> --Geoffrey
> ------------------------
> Geoffrey Skinner
> Technical Services Coordinator
> Sonoma State University Library
> 1801 East Cotati Ave.
> Rohnert Park, CA 94928
> skinnerg at sonoma dot edu
> 707-664-3310 (phone)
> 707-664-2876 (fax)
> >
> > Message: 1
> > Date: Wed, 8 Nov 2006 11:41:46 -0800
> > From: "Stephen McLaughlin" <sMcLaughlin at sfpl dot org>
> > Subject: [IUG] Link Maintenance Missing Some Bib Records?
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> > I've run into a weirdness and I'm wondering if anybody else has seen
> > this, or knows what's causing it.
> >
> > The first item of information is that we run link maintenance against
> > our entire database every day, it is run manually and the staff are
> > instructed to use the following menu choices:
> >
> > B > BOTH rearrange attached records and update locations
> >
> > and
> >
> > A > ALL types of records -- item, order and checkin
> >
> > So as far as I can tell, any change to the item, order or checkin
> > records attached to any bib record should cause changes in the bib-level
> > location field.
> >
> > So far so good, right?
> >
> > The next element in the story is that I've been trying to track down how
> > some bib records wound up with no item, order or checkin records
> > attached, since it doesn't seem to be happening by our regular database
> > maintenance procedures. This led me to discover some bib records that
> > have no attached records of any type, but still have a bib-level
> > location code. These are not busy or suppressed records. I ran link
> > maintenance against one such record, and no change was made to the
> > bib-level location field, even though there were no items, orders or
> > checkins attached. It's like link maintenance is just skipping the bib
> > for no reason.
> >
> > Am I missing something terribly obvious? Is there some glitch in link
> > maintenance? I've looked in the manual, and I cannot see any reason why
> > the program would be skipping these bib records. What's worrisome is
> > that there seem to be more and more bib with these "phantom" holdings.
> >
> > Help, Mister (or Ms.) Wizard!
> >
> > Steve McLaughlin
> > The Missing Link?
> > San Francisco Public Library
> >
> >
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