• Collections & Technical Services
• Oct. 07
• Issue: 216

Local Holdings Maintenance Statistics Available Through OCLC’s Usage Statistics Web Site

Did you know you can view statistics on your Local Holdings Maintenance usage through the OCLC Usage Statistics web site? Local Holdings Maintenance statistics offer a detailed electronic report of your monthly use of OCLC Local Holdings. You access the statistics at http://www.stats.oclc.org/.

You can also follow a link directly from Connexion browser and client. OCLC Usage Statistics for Local Holdings maintenance provides reports which include information about online edits to local holdings records as well as number of records added and deleted. Reports are sorted by “add,” “update,” and “delete.”

Reports:

Two reports are available:

• Local Holdings Maintenance Summary Report
• Local Holdings Maintenance Detail Report

The summary report provides the total number of Local Holdings records added, updated and deleted in the period chosen. The detail report provides record by record information including OCLC record number, action taken (add, update, or delete) and the date.

Agents:

Did you know this site provides information for you to monitor your work done on behalf of your client institutions?

Through OCLC Usage Statistics, agents can view two reports:

• Local Holdings Maintenance Agent Summary Report
• Local Holdings Maintenance Agent Detail Report

The summary report provides an institution by institution view giving the name of the institution and total number of records added, updated and deleted in the time frame selected. The Detail report breaks this information down to the record level giving name of the institution, OCLC symbol, OCLC record number, action taken (add, update, or delete) and the date.

Steps for accessing your reports:

1. Log on to the OCLC Usages Statistic site http://www.stats.oclc.org/ using an authorization number you use for local holdings maintenance.
2. Once logged on, be sure to choose the “online cataloging” tab.
3. Expand the “institution” link to see the Local holdings Maintenance reports.
4. If Local Holdings Maintenance work was done during the time period indicated in the “period” display, the LHM reports will appear under the “institution” link.
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5. Click on report you wish to view.

For Agents:

To access your agent reports, follow the steps above logging on using your agent authorization number used for Local Holdings Maintenance work performed on behalf of your client institutions.

Time period:

You can alter the period of coverage for the statistics by clicking the “period” display (near the top of the screen); then click “update.”

OCLC Usage Stats – Logon Screen

Links to Reports

Local Holding Maintenance Summary Report

Local Holding Maintenance Detail Report

Links to Agent Reports

Agent Summary Report

Agent Detail Report

For more information, contact Mary Edgerton (edgertonm@nylink.org) at Nylink.

[Mary Edgerton, Collections & Technical Services Librarian, Nylink]

Collections & Technical Services Contact Information

Please contact Lauren Pinsley (pinsleyl@nylink.org), Lynne Graziadei (graziadeil@nylink.org) or Mary Edgerton (edgertonm@nylink.org) at Nylink with any questions. They are available via email or phone (518-443-5444/800-342-3353).