Spring Cleaning (A Little Late)

All, this is a heads up. We will be cleaning out the database in the next couple of weeks. Top of the list is the removal of all the eBook records that we have not purchased. We will also be removing items from the migration that were brought over but have no holdings. The plan is to set all those items to DISCARD and then remove all of the items currently in the discard location. This will remove all the items that can be removed. Items with Bills will be left behind so that those bills remain intact. Currently there are some 19,000 items in DISCARD. While these are shadowed and do not appear in the OPAC they do still appear in WorkFlows so we should be cleaning them out on a fairly regular basis. I planned on doing it every six months. I’m about 6 months too late. The hold up has to do with the report to generate a file for OCLC deletions. We still don’t have a process on how this will work nor have we seen that the report itself works, (in tests it hasn’t worked). The plan is that once the deleted items are removed we will be generating reports for all the libraries to send to OCLC to have those titles removed from their OCLC holdings. I’ll let you know when we are finished.