cat:overlaying_bibliographic_records
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An essential database clean-up function is overlaying existing records in PINES with current records from OCLC. While the most likely reason to overlay is to improve a poor quality record, you will also want to overlay an existing record that does not have an OCLC based TCN or that may have improved subject or name headings in its current form in OCLC. Overlaying also is performed in conjunction with merging duplicate records ([[cat: | An essential database clean-up function is overlaying existing records in PINES with current records from OCLC. While the most likely reason to overlay is to improve a poor quality record, you will also want to overlay an existing record that does not have an OCLC based TCN or that may have improved subject or name headings in its current form in OCLC. Overlaying also is performed in conjunction with merging duplicate records ([[cat: | ||
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Go to the tab for the record to be overlaid to check if it was successfully overlaid. Redisplay the page and verify within the record summary for **Last Edited By** and **Last Edited On**. If **Last Edited By** is not you and the date not the current date, then the overlay failed because another record with that TCN is in the PINES database. Search and take appropriate actions such as merging and overlaying. | Go to the tab for the record to be overlaid to check if it was successfully overlaid. Redisplay the page and verify within the record summary for **Last Edited By** and **Last Edited On**. If **Last Edited By** is not you and the date not the current date, then the overlay failed because another record with that TCN is in the PINES database. Search and take appropriate actions such as merging and overlaying. | ||
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cat/overlaying_bibliographic_records.txt · Last modified: 2020/02/04 20:48 by ehardy