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Contact: Laura Daniels
Date last updated: August 4October 6, 20232025
Date of next review: September, 20242026
Changes to OCLC records are not automatically made to the corresponding records in FOLIO. Overlay to update the record in FOLIO.
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This should not be a problem in FOLIO. Overlaying a record should update the 035s.
- OCLC has some different encoding levels
We should accept the encoding level in the OCLC record (and update it in OCLC if appropriate). OCLC is phasing out the alpha-character encoding levels in favor of the standard MARC (numeric) values.
- Some records in FOLIO get replaced
Batch improvement processes are not all operating yet in FOLIO.
- FAST comes does not come in automatically
Batch processes are not operating yet in FOLIO. (10/13/2021)If a record in OCLC starts life with LCSH (either your original-cataloging LCSH or on copy), OCLC will run the record through its FAST converter program and add FAST to match the existing LCSH. Then OCLC tells us that the WorldCat record has changed. LTS Automation goes and gets the FAST from OCLC and adds it to the FOLIO record. Batch Processing refers to this service to our records as “WorldShare” from a feature of OCLC’s WorldShare suite of products. The FAST operation at OCLC also tells us about changes to its vocabularies, and we periodically perform FOLIO maintenance based on lists of new FAST changes.
- LCSH may come in automatically
Batch processes are not operating yet in FOLIO. (10/13/2021)If a record in OCLC starts life with FAST, but some member library adds LCSH, OCLC tells us that the WorldCat record has changed. Batch Processing goes and gets the LCSH from OCLC and adds it to the FOLIO record.
- LC call numbers come in automatically
Batch processes are not operating yet in FOLIO. (10/13/2021)If a member library adds an 050 to an OCLC WorldCat record that didn’t have a call number before, OCLC tells us. Batch Processing goes and gets the 050 from OCLC and adds it to the FOLIO record.
- 880s come in automatically
Batch processes are not operating yet in FOLIO. (10/13/2021)
If our FOLIO record does not have 880 fields for parallel scripts, but the OCLC WorldCat record gets them, we add 880 fields to the FOLIO record. This is a scripted job that Batch Processing runs manually.
- Duplicate contents (505) and summary (520) fields
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If there is an authority record behind an access point in OCLC, that access point can be “controlled” in OCLC (either manually or, to a limited extent, automatically). Then whenever the authority record changes the string in the 1XX, the controlled heading in OCLC automatically changes. This does not automatically update the record in FOLIO.
- Authority control in FOLIO—different!
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