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Recently Loaded Records

Marcive Processing

1:30am records from previous day are sent for processing.
10:30pm that evening, those records are retrieved.
5:15am the next morning, the corrected or TOC enhanced bib records are loaded
into Acorn by the marcive_bibload report.

Files Returned from Marcive

Bibliographic Records:
  • GPO weekly bib records. Retrieved and loaded manually by LITS weekly.
  • GPO monthly bib records. Retrieved and loaded manually by LITS around
    the 10th of each month.
  • GPO changed bib records received monthly. Retrieved manually by LITS,
    loaded by library staff (Linda Tesar or Amy Stewart-Mailhiot) around the middle
    of each month.
  • Corrected bibliographic records with auth processing only.
    Retrieved and loaded automatically daily.
  • Corrected bibliographic records with auth and TOC processing.
    Retrieved and loaded automatically daily.
Authority Records:
  • GPO monthly authority records.
    Retrieved manually by LITS, loaded by library staff (Mary Charles Lasater)
    around the middle of each month.
  • LC authority records for bibs sent for authority processing only.
    Retrieved and loaded automatically daily.
  • LC authority records for bibs sent for authority and toc processing.
    Retrieved and loaded automatically daily.
  • Mesh authority records for bibs sent for authority and toc processing.
    Retrieved and loaded automatically daily.
  • Mesh authority records for bibs sent for toc processing only.
    Retrieved and loaded automatically daily.
  • LC authority update records received monthly.
    Retrieved by LITS, loaded by library staff (Mary Charles Lasater)
    around the middle of each month.
  • New match authority (non-series) records received monthly.
    Retrieved and loaded automatically by LITS around the
    middle of each month.
  • New match authority (series) records received monthly.
    Retrieved and loaded automatically around the middle of each month.
  • Series authority records for GPO bibs.
    Retrieved manually by LITS, loaded by library staff (Mary Charles Lasater).
  • Series authority records for non-GPO bibs sent for authority processing only.
    Retrieved and loaded automatically daily.
  • Series authority records for non-GPO bibs sent for authority and toc processing.
    Retrieved and loaded automatically daily.
  • Series authority update records received monthly. Not retrieved unless
    Ann Ercelawn asked for them to be loaded.

Other Records Retrieved and Loaded per Batchload Request from Library Staff

  • Netlibrary: OCLC notifies Roberta Winjum that records are ready. Records are retrieved, edited and loaded by LITS staff.
  • Documenting the American South: OCLC notifies Mary Ellen Wilson. Records are retrieved and edited by LITS staff and loaded into Acorn by Mary Ellen.
  • Knovel Insert: OCLC notifies Roberta Winjum. Records are retrieved, edited and loaded into Acorn by LITS staff.
  • Marcit Ex Libris records: Retrieval initiated by library staff. Records are retrieved, edited and loaded by script that runs automatically daily. These records are added to the files that go for daily Marcive processing.

Other collections of records are loaded per request to LITS.

To request batchloading of records, fill out the form at: Batch Load Request

To see the total number of non-GPO records loaded monthly see: