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Catalog clean up Ideas to work on at your institution: Notes:
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Article where this list was inspired: Pre-ILS Migration Catalog Clean up Project
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Copy numbers
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Locations/Location namesSome location names no longer used can be deleted....
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Notes
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850 Holding Institution field (?)
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040 Non-English Language codes
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Barcodes - #of characters
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Circulating Policies associated with location codes
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Records with no ITEMSUse Advanced search to create Sets
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Identify and clean up invalid Unicode charactersRows 19-25 Came from EBSCO for Pre-migration clean up.
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If you know that you do not want to migrate duplicate titles, then you should normalize them in your current system
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Avoid migrating records without titles. TAG 245
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Clean up and consolidate codes (locations, itypes, mat types, etc) as well as outright deleting stuff they don’t intend to migrate
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Make sure that the 001 MARC tag contains the current number of your legacy system
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Resolve/remove uncollectable fees/fines as well as old loans they know they’re not getting back
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