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OCLC will be out for OCLC-NACO users this coming Friday-Sunday. <br><br>
Patricia<br><br>
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<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite="">Sender: Program for Cooperative
Cataloging <PCCLIST@loc.gov><br>
From: "Dean,Becky" <deanr@OCLC.ORG><br>
Subject: Upcoming OCLC scheduled maintenance<br>
Comments: To: Program for Cooperative Cataloging
<PCCLIST@loc.gov><br>
To: PCCLIST@sun8.LOC.GOV<br><br>
<font face="Century Schoolbook, New Century Schoolbook">This message is
to alert OCLC users of planned system maintenance over the days March
23-25, 2007, which will impact all OCLC-NACO
users.</font>
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<br>
</font><font face="Century Schoolbook, New Century Schoolbook">The
current plan, which is subject to modification, is to disable the ability
for NACO users to add and/or update authority records using the OCLC
Connexion interfaces starting at approximately 9 p.m. Eastern Daylight
Time (EDT) on March 23. <br>
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</font><font face="Century Schoolbook, New Century Schoolbook">The
capability to add and/or update authority records will be re-instated at
approximately 9 p.m. EDT on March 25.<br>
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</font><font face="Century Schoolbook, New Century Schoolbook">During
that time, OCLC will also suspend the loading of distributed authority
records from the Library of Congress, but will continue to retrieve
contribution files.<br>
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<br>
</font><font face="Century Schoolbook, New Century Schoolbook">During the
outage, users will continue to be able to:
<ul>
<li>search and browse the LC Names and Subjects authority files,
<li>search and browse the LC Names and Subjects history files,
<li>create new authority records,
<li>edit existing authority records,
<li>lock existing authority records,
<li>saving new and/or modified authority records to online and/or local
files,
<li>submit new and/or modified authority records for peer review,
<li>control headings using existing records in the LC Names and/or
Subjects authority
files,</font>
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<li><font face="Century Schoolbook, New Century Schoolbook">export
authority
records,</font>
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</font>
<li><font face="Century Schoolbook, New Century Schoolbook">print
authority records</font>
</ul>
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</font><font face="Century Schoolbook, New Century Schoolbook"> <br>
</font>
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<br>
</font><font face="Century Schoolbook, New Century Schoolbook">Should a
user attempt to add and/or replace a master authority record during the
outage, a message will be displayed to the user:
<ul>
<li>Connexion client (1.60 or 1.70) will return the message "An
error has occurred…" if either the Add record or Replace record is
invoked. If the user attempts to add a record from either the
online or local save file, other error messages may be presented.
<li>Connexion browser will return the messages "Add failed
" or "Replace failed " , depending on the action
selected by the user.
</ul>Should any type of error message be returned, the user can choose to
save the record to the online or local save file, or cancel
changes. <br>
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<br>
</font><font face="Century Schoolbook, New Century Schoolbook">During the
period of outage, a system alerts message will also be posted.
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<br>
</font><font face="Century Schoolbook, New Century Schoolbook">Should you
need additional information or assistance, please feel free to contact me
directly. <br>
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</font><font face="Century Schoolbook, New Century Schoolbook">Thank
you,<br>
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</font><font face="Century Schoolbook, New Century Schoolbook">--Becky
Dean<br>
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<br>
</font><font face="Century Schoolbook, New Century Schoolbook">Phone:
(800)848-5878, ext. 5144<br>
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</font><font face="Century Schoolbook, New Century Schoolbook">Email:
deanr@oclc.org<br>
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</font><font face="Century Schoolbook, New Century Schoolbook">Fax: (614)
718-7362 <br>
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<br>
</font><font face="Century Schoolbook, New Century Schoolbook">Luanne
Goodson, OCLC NACO Coordinator<br>
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<br>
</font><font face="Century Schoolbook, New Century Schoolbook">Quality
Control Section; WorldCat Mgmt. Div.</blockquote>
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Patricia Thurston<br>
Assistant Head, Catalog & Metadata Services<br>
Team Leader, Slavic & East European Team<br>
Sterling Memorial Library<br>
Yale University<br><br>
Phone: (203) 432-8424<br>
Fax: (203) 432-7231</font></body>
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