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Phantom holdings at MIT
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Stephen Skuce)
Fri Mar 10 13:45:02 1995
To: m.ridgeway@geac.com
Cc: ad-cat@MIT.EDU
Date: Fri, 10 Mar 1995 13:44:30 EST
From: Stephen Skuce <skuce@MIT.EDU>
Mike,
I think we're in agreement that the culprit here is the ACQ transfer.
The records I tested that had 949 fields but did not have phantom
holdings in Advance entered GLIS in 1992 or earlier. Walter Powers
here at MIT wisely questioned whether these test records predated our
implementation of the GLIS Acquisitions module, and indeed they had.
Today I tested a few records that entered GLIS after ACQ
implementation, and the small sample revealed
1. Phantom holdings for straight, ACQ-ordered monographs,
2. NO phantom holdings for a non-ACQ-ordered monograph, and
3. NO phantom holdings for a non-ACQ-ordered, but MRMS "brief record
overwritten" monograph.
I can do a more exhaustive sample, but I don't think it's necessary.
As you said earlier, the ACQ-MRMS-CIRC trail is where we need to look.
Stephen Skuce
