Synchronisation of holdings on Te Puna and OCLC WorldCat: a Progress Report (message also posted on Te Puna-L) 4 Oct 2007 The National Library is pleased to report that over the last week significant progress has been made in reaching the agreed ideal of a daily exchange of data between the National Library and OCLC. What has happened already? The National Union Catalogue was loaded to WorldCat in June 2007. As a consequence, New Zealand library holdings are visible either via WorldCat or google searches. While that was an excellent first step, both parties had anticipated that by now there would be complete synchronisation of information in the two databases. What happened to cause the delay? Of that first load, OCLC wished to look further at 116,330 unresolved bibliographic records that have delayed the Te Puna gap load to WorldCat (i.e. records and holdings from July 2007 to date). OCLC has worked with these records to improve the match/load process and late last week reported that 107,,600 had been loaded : the remainder will follow shortly. Once this is done the gap load to WorldCat will take place and from that point on we will be able to exchange data on a daily basis: the target we are both working towards. We acknowledge that this delay may have caused a disruption to preferred workflows in some libraries, so look forward to having the situation resolved. Those libraries that have reported their records/holdings directly to WorldCat will be pleased to hear that daily loads to Te Puna have been in place since 1 July this year. Digital Solutions National Library of New Zealand P.O. Box 1467 Wellington 6140 Email: tepuna@natlib.govt.nz Telephone: +64 4 474 3089 Mobile: 021 540 978 Read latest Te Puna news at http://subscribers.natlib.govt.nz/ This e-mail is intended for the addressee only and may contain information which is subject to legal privilege. The contents are not necessarily the official view or communication of the National Library of New Zealand. If you are not the intended recipient you must not use, disclose, copy or distribute this e-mail or any information in, or attached to it. If you have received this e-mail in error, please contact the sender immediately or return the original message to the National Library by e-mail, and destroy any copies. The National Library does not accept any liability for changes made to this e-mail or attachments after sending. All e-mails have been scanned for viruses and content by security software. The National Library reserves the right to monitor all e-mail communications through its network.