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Unit: Post Cataloging Services

Date last updated: 07/0124/20162017 

Date of next review: July 2017 2018 

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2. Deleting our bibliographic holdings from WorldCat will be done automatically overnight under either of 2 conditions.

a. Record Bib record is suppressed and bib leader position 5 equals “d”.

b. Record Bib record is suppressed with 948 withdrawal statistic present with today’s date.

3. Our OCLC holdings will not be deleted overnight when more than one unsuppressed Voyager bib has the same OCLC master number.

4. If they do not represent withdrawn titles. For example, holdings are better represented on another OCLC master number.  Then , then holdings must be removed manually from the previous OCLC number and added to the other new master record manually.

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B. To Delete a BIB Record

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3. Cataloged records (except duplicates with the same OCLC master number): 

       Display the BIB.

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       If you get the message Unable to delete holdings record. PO must be deleted first, click on OK and alert Acquisitionsthen you add a |x note "Unable to delete, PO attached" to the 852 field.

 

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Item Records

1. If you want to delete a bibliographic record from Voyager, you must delete its associated item record(s) first, then its MFHDs, then the BIB record. Voyager will not let you delete an item record that has circulation transactions pending against it, such as a record for a title that is charged out to a patron through the Circulation module. Deleted records stay in the system, even though we can't view them.

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