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DEPRECATED THIS PROCEDURE IS NO LONGER UPDATED
Scope: This procedure provides instructions for running automated import, export, cleanup, reporting and various related jobs using scripts found in LS Tools web site and other tools created by the Library Systems Office and LTS Batch Processing staff. For issues surrounding the scheduling of large batch loads, please consult Bulk Loading: Scheduling (#46d). Unless otherwise noted, the items listed below are descriptions of scripts and tools found on LS Tools. Jobs may include scripts known as "mod jobs" run from a staff member's individual LS Tools folder, as opposed to scripts that are accessible directly from the LS Tools web interface. Non-LS Tools jobs are most commonly referred to as "manual" jobs. For information on staff batch job assignments, please refer to the Bulk Loading: List of Jobs (#46c).
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Date last updated: 07/23/2018
Date of next review: July 2019
Note: Access to LS Tools is limited to trained technical services staff, divided into several levels, depending upon the degree of complexity and the impact of the tools accessible at each level.
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Basic Access Group (See Access Description)
Bulk Loading: Batch Processing Scripts & Tools (LTS Procedure #46b) CLAMMS
Advanced Access Group (See Access Description)
Batch Processing/Heads/Expert-Level Access Group (See Access Description)
Administrative Group (See Access Description)
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Basic Access Group
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I. “General Update” Section of LS ToolsAnchor GU GU
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III. “CLAMMS subsystem” (CGI28): Also known as the Automated Media Shelflisting System, this tool allows catalogers to determine the proper accession number for videos and microforms. Access is given only to those individual catalogers who need to use it.Anchor CLAMMS CLAMMS
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Advanced Access Group
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I. “Voyager Update Utilities” Section of LS ToolsAnchor VUU VUU
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b. OCLC Unresolved Records (Not in LS Tools): Receive email announcements of our daily cataloging export results. Any coded as unresolved appear in a MARC file which is downloaded from OCLC Product Services website. Our holdings for these records were not added to WorldCat due to MARC errors. Staff member must manually examine each record in Connexion to correct error(s) and add our holdings to OCLC.
Anchor EXPERT EXPERT
Batch Processing/Heads/Expert-Level Access Group
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I. “ALL LS Tools Production” Section of LS ToolsAnchor AllProd AllProd
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i. Replace Harvard POOF Vendor Matrix (Not in LS Tools): Infrequent manual job - Updates tables for automated ordering for vendors.
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Anchor ADMIN ADMIN
Administrative Access Group
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I. “Administer LS Tools Itself” Section of LS ToolsAnchor AdLSTools AdLSTools
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f. Configure JOB CONTROL (Families) (CGI38)
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