OCLC has recently completed a major reload of records from the National Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections (NUCMC) distributed by the Library of Congress. There were two goals in doing this load. First, OCLC had not loaded these records in a number of years and we wanted to fill in the gaps in WorldCat. Second, when we had loaded them in the past, many records were truncated because of OCLC's limitations on record size. Now that those size limits no longer apply, we wanted to restore the records to their full content. It's become clear over the past few days that, for some records that were already in WorldCat, the loading process did not adequately protect records for which the WorldCat version was more recent and more complete than the record as distributed by LC. OCLC staff are currently working on identifying the cases in which this happened so that the previous version of the record can be restored. We have put loads of the weekly NUCMC files on hold until we can resolve the issues surrounding protecting these updated records. For those OCLC member libraries who have been updating the NUCMC records in WorldCat that represent their institution's collections, we ask that you NOT update any records until OCLC staff have restored the earlier versions of the records. If you make changes to the current version of the records, that will complicate the process of restoring the earlier versions. We will announce when you can resume updating records online. We apologize for the difficulties we have caused and we thank you in advance for your patience while we resolve the situation. Glenn Patton Director, WorldCat Quality Management OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc. 6565 Frantz Rd. Dublin OH 43017-3395 Phone: +1.800.848.5878, ext. 6371 or +1.614.764.6371 Fax: +1.614.718.7187 Email: mailto:[log in to unmask] A posting from the Archives & Archivists LISTSERV List sponsored by the Society of American Archivists, www.archivists.org. For the terms of participation, please refer to http://www.archivists.org/listservs/arch_listserv_terms.asp. To subscribe or unsubscribe, send e-mail to [log in to unmask] In body of message: SUB ARCHIVES firstname lastname *or*: UNSUB ARCHIVES To post a message, send e-mail to [log in to unmask] Or to do *anything* (and enjoy doing it!), use the web interface at http://listserv.muohio.edu/archives/archives.html Problems? Send e-mail to Robert F Schmidt <[log in to unmask]>