I need some feedback on how others handle this situation. We have serial holdings on a MARC record I’ll call Record A in our local system. At some point after we imported that record from OCLC, they (OCLC) merged that record into what I’ll call Record B. My choices now are: 1) keep our holdings on Record A in our system, not bothering with Record B at all, or 2) import Record B into our ILS, relink the items to that record, and delete Record A. Choice 2 is technically correct; choice 1 is easier and maintains info like checkin history.

What do the rest of you do? I’m in a big cleanup project, making sure our ILS and OCLC records and holdings correspond, and I’m running into a few of these.

Lynne Weaver

Serials Coordinator

Lipscomb Library

434 947-8396 Phone 434 947-8134 Fax

lweaver@randolphcollege.edu

Randolph College

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