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Overview: Ongoing local holdings records collection

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Discover an overview of the ongoing local holdings records collection learning path.

Overview 

Data synchronization is an automated process that compares records from your local catalog against records in WorldCat and manages holdings on those matching records. These holdings may be at the institution-level, such as your OCLC symbol, or at the local-level, such as local holdings records (LHRs). This process also facilitates adding new records to WorldCat.

Create a local holdings records collection to maintain your institution's LHR information in WorldCat.

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  1. Configure institution settings for local holdings records collections
  2. Create a local holdings records collection
  3. Data requirements for local holdings records collections
  4. Additional data preparation
  5. MARC 21 Format for Holdings Data and OCLC local holdings records
  6. Upload files in My Files
  7. Data sync collections processing
  8. Download files in My Files
  9. Additional resources