2009-09-18

We own items that are not in WorldCat

Issue: We currently have no way of displaying records in our Local if no OCLC number exists for this item (or this specific edition). This is the case for a good number of our Government Documents and Special Collections, but is not limited to these areas.

Status: UPDATE! Bill Slauenwhite has received an answer from OCLC. They have informed us that there is a process for assessing an institution's 'unresolved records' and determining if our records are admissible into WorldCat (they cannot be incomplete), and that they usually wait a little while after setup before instigating this process. This time has come for Novanet, and they will work with Bill to report which records are being added and which ones cannot.

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