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Wow, I didn't know you could share records saved in the local file. I'll
have to look into that! <br>
One clarification: If you are using the online save file and are working
on a "new" record (i.e. one that you create yourself), you have
a 28-day clock (which resets each time you modify and re-save the
record); if you are working on an existing record (with or without
locking the master record first), you have a 14-day clock.<br><br>
Randy<br><br>
At 02:52 PM 9/12/2007, you wrote:<br>
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<font face="garamond" color="#0000FF">Hi, Deborah,<br>
The local file, hands down. The online file has a 14-day
“clock” and if you need to spend time researching something, you may
exceed that time, meaning you either have to re-save it (starting a new
14-day clock) or lose it (the automated system OCLC uses to sweep records
after 14 days knows no mercy).<br>
You can share your local files too, if you set everyone’s up
in a LAN-like shared drive, so that defeats one of the “pluses” of the
online file. Of course, you still have the option to use the online save
file at times--for instance, if someone needs to share records outside
the institution (or LAN), with a NACO or PCC reviser or something.
<br>
After some 20+ years of suffering with OCLC’s online save
file, when the local save was introduced with Connexion, I grabbed onto
it and haven’t looked
back!!!
--Jain<br>
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<font face="tahoma" size=2><b>From:</b> dcrm-l-bounces@lib.byu.edu
[<a href="mailto:dcrm-l-bounces@lib.byu.edu" eudora="autourl">
mailto:dcrm-l-bounces@lib.byu.edu</a>] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Deborah J.
Leslie<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, September 12, 2007 2:41 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> dcrm-l@lib.byu.edu<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [DCRM-L] Where do you save your files<br>
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<font face="verdana" size=2>Another question we’ve been discussing: where
do you save your files on records in progress in OCLC? In the online save
file, or in a local save file? For either one, what are the reasons?<br>
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<font face="verdana" size=2>Thanks much,<br>
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