I have had difficulties in using OASIS Acquisitions with the new products and services. How can I ensure against duplicate records?
“Firstly, we Receive all ordered items in Acquisitions then edit the skeleton record to reflect the actual item (ie scan in the ISBN; delete the computer generated suffixes) and screen dump this record. We do not use SCISCD for these items; we find that, because of the nature of the school, there are many new resources that do not yet appear on the CD-ROM. Instead, we check SCISWeb using OPAC, and scan the ISBNs in Builder. The SCIS record is printed off if there is one. (If there isn’t, we send the resource to SCIS at Ryde for cataloguing. The item is already accessioned and barcoded, so we can easily keep track of it; the item goes ‘on loan’ to SCIS.) “The printed record is compared with the screen dump and, if necessary, we edit our brief record to match the exact spelling and punctuation. (This is quite fast because each resource can be found in General Resources by barcode; having the two printed versions makes it easier to compare). We then download the record from SCISWeb and tr
