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Unit: Database Management Services
Date last reviewed: 7/23/17 18
Date of next review: July 20182019
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I. “General Update” Section of LS Tools
A. Move LTS or Law EDI File to Voyager Folder
B. Check for/Remove Carriage
C. MARC Modification
D. ENACT Bulk Import
E. Prepare a
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I. EDI Import
For EDI invoices download and ftp placement in the Voyager\EDI\Incoming folder for the Acquisitions client to load. After selecting the button for either Law or LTS, the specific job selected will connect to the vendor’s ftp server’s invoice folder and allow automatic placement of the file into the production server.
II. General Update
Section for tools used in the editing and manipulation of .mrc record files.
III. Vendor e-Book Load
Loads electronic record sets supplied by vendor. Modifies the records per script prior to the load.
IV. F. Prepare a Vendor Print Load
Acquisitions bulk import of vendor supplied MARC records with or without purchase order creation via embedded order data. Selection of this button in LS Tools gives a choice of various pre-scripted jobs connecting to a folder on the vendor’s website or locally on a server.
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II. “Voyager Harvest” Section of LS Tools
A. MARC File Examination
B. View Harvest Output
C. Develop a Harvest query to identify Voyager Record
D. Extract MARC Records from Voyager
III. “CLAMSS subsystem”
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I. “Voyager Update Utilities” Section of LS Tools
A. Prepare a Miscellaneous MARC Input File
B. Execute a Privileged Production Procedure
C. Queue BulkImport
D. Run a Voyager Utility Program
II. “Voyager Reporting Utilities” Section of LS Tools
A. Execute a Report or Extract
B. Match BibIDs from external list
C. Other reports/extracts, which are NOT in LS Tools
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I. Extract Records from a List of ID Numbers
Take a set of bib or holdings ids, either generated by a harvest or other means, and extract the associated MARC records.
II. Harvest Voyager Records
Develop queries for the extraction of bibs or holdings based on specific field criteria.
III. Miscellaneous Loads
Specialized loads that require additional expertise on the part of the staff member to run.
IV. Privileged Procedure
Location for more advanced reports and record loads with higher stakes if mistakes happen.
V. Queue BulkImport
Allows selection of bulk import profile to load into production or test version of Voyager.
VI. Voyager Utilities
Used after loading authority record files to perform global headings jobs 11 and 12, which index bib and authority headings in global headings queue for authority maintenance.
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Batch Processing/Heads/Expert Group
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Reports and processes that the Batch Processing or LTS management has access to, often a space to test new processes.
II. Various Cron Jobs
Section of scripts that allow for the manual running of a CRON job. Sub-sections include OCLC, General, and Privileged Cron Jobs.
III. Google Utilities
Various scripts for Google and HathiTrust Voyager extracts. Some are run by LTS staff; some by the project manager for the Google Project and who also serves as liaison to HathiTrust (marked “PM” on this list).
IV. Reports and Extracts
Location for scripts that create reports or extract records as part of routine database maintenance processes.
V. Test new jobs
Area where many new jobs are tested prior to being implemented.
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I. Clean Up Voyager
This section of LS Tools contains a set of tools that are currently in development. Each of them contains a menu of fields/issues that can be chosen to be either reported upon or corrected.
II. LS Tools Configuration
The jobs in this section are used by administrators to edit existing LS Tools jobs’ defaults, add new users, edit permission levels for various jobs, etc.
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“ALL LS Tools Production” Section of LS Tools
A. Business Analysis Web Displays
B. Cron Jobs for Interaction with OCLC
C. Execute a Google Utility
D. Cron Jobs with General Access
E. Cron Jobs with Privileged Access
F. Execute an Administrative Production Procedure
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I. “Administer LS Tools Itself” Section of LS Tools
A. Report/Clean Up Voyager MARC Record Errors
B. Configure LS Tools Tables & Directories
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This tool allows catalogers to determine the proper accession number for videos, computer discs, and microforms. Access is usually given only to those individual catalogers who need to use it.