[DCRM-L] Where do you save your files

[Fletcher, Jain]

Hi, Deborah,

   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).

   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.  

   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

 

Jain Fletcher
Principal Cataloger & Head, Technical Services Division 
Department of Special Collections 
Young Research Library - UCLA Box 951575
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575

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Subject: [DCRM-L] Where do you save your files

 

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?

Thanks much,

Deborah 

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