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WorldShare Record Manager release notes, October 2022

Release Date: October 15, 2022

Introduction

This release of WorldShare Record Manager provides two new features and enhancements in addition to numerous bug fixes. These features will help you manage more complex workflows, including:

  • Display of the permanent shelving location on the LHR copies view for serials and multiparts
  • Advanced action "Derive Electronic Record" now no longer adds unauthorized subject headings for electronic resources
  • Bug fixes:
    • When receiving serial items a second caption in 853 was ignored 
    • Saving an LHR that has a 852 $t field but no $h subfield returned an error
    • Editing items with a specific serial number caused an error 
    • Saving an LHR that has quotes in the 852 $h field caused an error
    • Saving an LHR that has a backslash in the item description field failed

These enhancements are the direct result of your feedback.

New features and enhancements

Display of the permanent shelving location on the LHR copies view for serials and multiparts

A new column for the permanent shelving location has been added for serial and multipart copies in the LHR text-view editor. 

 Note: This is the permanent shelving location on copy level as opposed to temporary shelving locations on item level.

Copy_withShelvingLocation.pngAdvanced action "Derive Electronic Record" no longer adds subject headings for electronic resources

OCLC staff will begin removing the genre subject headings starting with "Electronic" from WorldCat bibliographic records upon the recommendation of the cataloging community. The genre heading is not recognized as an authorized heading and many other fields are available to code those aspects of a resource.

As a result, this step has been removed from the Derive Electronic Record advanced action so that subject headings for electronic resources do not continue to be added to WorldCat bibliographic records through use of this action.

Bug fixes

When receiving serial items a second caption in 853 was ignored

When receiving serial items a second caption in 853 was ignored and returned an error message which broke the serials receiving process in Acquisitions. Now users can add items with different captions within one LHR.

Saving an LHR that has a 852 $t field but no $h subfield returned an error

When trying to save an LHR that has a 852 $t field but no $h subfield an error occurred. Now, records that don't have a 852 $h can be saved successfully. 

Editing items with a specific serial number caused an error

When editing items with a specific serial number (e.g. 1.123) an error occurred. Now items with all serial numbers can be successfully edited.

Saving an LHR that has quotes in the 852 $h field caused an error

Saving an LHR that has quotes in the classification part of the call number (field 852 $h) caused an error. Now these LHRs can be saved correctly.

Saving an LHR that has a backslash in the item description field failed

Saving an LHR that has a backslash in the item description field failed. Now these LHRs can be saved correctly.

Known issues

Check duplicate call number does not work if the call number contains special characters 

When using the check duplicate call number feature and the call number contains special characters such as quotation marks, the duplicate call number check will not work. 

Important links

WorldShare Record Manager office hours

Join the WorldShare Record Manager team to ask any questions you have about Record Manager. Visit Record Manager Events in the OCLC Community Center for more information about upcoming office hours and previous recordings. 

WorldCat Validation release notes

WorldCat Validation release notes provide current OCLC-MARC updates; changes to tagging conventions and coding practices for bibliographic, authority, and holdings records; and new MARC codes. 

Virtual AskQC office hours

Join OCLC Metadata Quality staff to discuss WorldCat quality issues and cataloging questions. Visit AskQC for information about upcoming office hours, previous office hour recordings, and supporting materials.