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

["Carol Gyger" <cgyger at fcgov dot com>]

We use automatic link maintenance and, as far as I know, we have not
experienced any problems.  However, it is important to periodically
check the Link Maintenance Report.  It reports any problems with the
automatic process.  If the report show the process has aborted for any
reason, it's important to manually run Link Maintenance on the whole
database.  This has happened only a few times since we started using the
automatic process some time ago.

Carol

Carol Gyger
Systems Administrator
Fort Collins Public Library
201 Peterson St.
Fort Collins CO  80524
(970)221-6716
cgyger at fcgov dot com

>>> Glendaa at wcls dot lib dot ar dot us 11/9/2006 12:26:47 PM >>>
We did not experience any link maintenance problems until we started
using
automatic link maintenance.

Glenda

Glenda Audrain
Director
Washington County Library System
1080 West Clydesdale Drive
Fayetteville, AR 72701
479-442-6253
fax 479-442-6812
glendaa at wcls dot lib dot ar dot us 
 

-----Original Message-----
From: Strouse, Mary [mailto:STROUSE at law dot edu] 
Sent: Thursday, November 09, 2006 12:31 PM
To: IUG INNOPAC List
Subject: RE: [IUG] Link Maintenance Missing Some Bib Records?

Is the problem limited to the automatic link maintenance? Has anyone
experienced link maintenance problems in a library that does not use
automatic link maintenance?  With the uniqueness of our local systems,
this is the kind of detail that sometimes gets lost.

Mary

Mary M. Strouse
Head of Technical Services
Judge Kathryn J. DuFour Law Library
Catholic University of America
(202) 319-5547
(202) 319-4447 FAX
http://library.law.cua.edu 

-----Original Message-----
From: innopac-bounces at innopacusers dot org 
[mailto:innopac-bounces at innopacusers dot org] On Behalf Of VICTORIA GREENE
Sent: Thursday, November 09, 2006 2:09 PM
To: geoffrey dot skinner at sonoma dot edu; IUG INNOPAC List
Subject: Re: [IUG] Link Maintenance Missing Some Bib Records?

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?
> > To: "IUG INNOPAC List" <innopac at innopacusers dot org>
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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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