Items that were hidden from the public (masked/shadowed) in
the old catalog, such as lost books, can't be hidden in WorldCat Local.
In WorldCat you might run into lost books like this
one: Zunker, V. G. (2012). Career counseling:
A holistic approach. Belmont, Calif: Brooks/Cole.
The detailed record says "We were unable to get
availability information for this item. Please check at the circulation desk
for assistance" instead of call number, availability, and location.
Follow the advice and check with the Circulation desk.
They'll figure out the status of the item. If it's a book that's been declared
lost, proceed as you normally would when we don't own it: suggest ILL (if it's
not a textbook) or offer to look for the item in other local libraries.
Librarians, if you're super interested in tracking something
down yourself, feel free to look it up in WorkFlows. Terry says we should have access to that
system through December. Keep in mind,
Workflows will have outdated availability info, outdated holdings, and outdated
circ stats.
Cataloging deleted as many lost item records as possible
before sending our holdings to OCLC. But
ASD wanted to keep records for all lost/missing items that have outstanding
fines.
Mary Jane expects that there will be a "lost
items" clean up project after Access Services has been able to verify that
records for lost and missing items are connecting properly to patron records.
IMO, there are other projects that Access Services will be working on, too, and
I don't know their priority list.
Thanks,
Lea
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