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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Dear colleagues, <br>
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I have been silent on all of this, but I guess it's time to chime
in. University of Delaware became the first "major" institution to
adopt WorldShare Management Services, and we migrated last summer.
<br>
<br>
WMS (which goes by many derogatory nicknames here, like WMD) is
the way OCLC takes over your ILS. Circulation, reserves,
cataloging, acquisitions, everything. Not to put too fine a point
on it, hearing talk about going to check an institution's local
catalog makes me cringe, because WE NO LONGER HAVE A LOCAL
CATALOG. We have OCLC records with extra things dangling from
them. Whenever I explain it to someone outside of our library,
they ask if I'm looking for another job (I'm not). The library
spent about 18 months working with OCLC on the system, then
another 12 months when it became clear that they wouldn't be ready
for the go live date, and there is still continual communication
and activity between UD and OCLC.<br>
<br>
When I search for a record in the metadata module of WMS, it takes
me to the master record, the Local Bib Data (if there is one), and
the Local Holdings Record (if there is one). Local notes go into
the LBD (natch, but you never know with these things). Because
I've been in denial for the past year, I haven't checked what our
records look like on the other end, but I figured now was the
time, and I have had a friend at a different institution take a
look. <u>It is, in fact, possible for others to see the LBD</u>.
When the holdings come up in WorldCat.org (I don't know about
FirstSearch, I didn't check that yet), if you click on the holding
library's name, the notes come up under the "Details" section.
This isn't a very exciting record (the book happened to be on my
desk because one of the copies dropped out in the migration, which
is a story for another day), but if you want to take a look, this
is the record she checked:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.worldcat.org/title/entailed-hat-or-patty-cannons-times-a-romance/oclc/1875667&referer=brief_results">http://www.worldcat.org/title/entailed-hat-or-patty-cannons-times-a-romance/oclc/1875667&referer=brief_results</a><br>
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Believe me, I'm not a fan of WMS, but at least for now, I know
people can see our local data. Or at least she could ...<br>
<br>
Jennifer MacDonald<br>
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On 5/14/2015 5:31 PM, Allison Rich wrote:<br>
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Furthermore, the Harvard Library has 30 OCLC symbols in use; I asked in the 11am webinar if individual libraries would be able to view the others' LBD. The response was that we would only be able to view the symbol associated with the login. Speaking personally, I can't imagine that the LBD would ever be more useful than Harvard's shared local catalog (or even the notes on our old catalog cards, for that matter). </pre>
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Ah interesting. Then I heard that wrong. I apologize for making
that claim then.<br>
As that is the case then searching in HOLLIS will give you a far
better idea than LBDs!!<br>
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I also found the statement that no end of life date has been determined for Connexion quite ominous. More generally speaking, I found the responses were often very vague and didn't necessarily answer the question being asked in a meaningful way.</pre>
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Very much agreed, Honor. The answers were very vague that way and
most unsatisfying.<br>
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~Allison<br>
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"Outside of a dog,
a book is probably man's best friend,
and inside of a dog,
it's too dark to read.
- Groucho Marx"
Allison Rich
Rare Materials Cataloguer
ESTC and NACO Coordinator
John Carter Brown Library
Providence, Rhode Island
<a moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:Allison_Rich@brown.edu">Allison_Rich@brown.edu</a>
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Jennifer MacDonald
Associate Librarian and Coordinator,
Special Collections Cataloging and Processing
Metadata Services Department
University of Delaware Library
Newark, DE 19717-5267
302-831-1512</pre>
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