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Chapter 31 Autorecon and Reading Program Recon
This chapter contains a description of the Autorecon process and instructions for
conducting an Autorecon (automated retrospective conversion) and a Reading
Program Recon.
About the Autorecon process
Autorecon enhances the library's bibliographic records with information from
Alliance Plus Online or an Alliance Plus CD database.
Important: Depending on the size of your database, the available bandwidth of
your network, and CD drive speed, the Autorecon process may take
several hours. We suggest you run this process overnight. However, if
this is not convenient, you can spread the Autorecon process out over
a number of days by running it a few hours at a time, interrupting the
process, and then restarting it as desired. If you do decide to interrupt
the Autorecon process, we strongly recommend that you keep any
maintenance activities (adding or editing records) to a minimum until
the Autorecon is finished.
During Autorecon, Alliance Plus processes bibliographic records in the library
database by comparing the record's LCCN, ISBN, or ISSN, record type, and the
first eighty characters of the title, stored in the 245 tag, with the records on the
Alliance Plus data source. If both the number and the title match, Alliance Plus
replaces the brief or full bibliographic record or updates the full bibliographic
record in the library database with information from the matching record on the
Alliance Plus data source. If Alliance Plus does not find a match, it skips the
record. The application also skips temporary records and any record that doesn't
have at least one copy record with a call number.
This process is limited to the bibliographic records and has no effect on any
copies associated with the record being enhanced.
The brief and full record ranges described in the following Autorecon process
options are based on the definition you provided in the Brief Records tab under
Cataloging setup in System Setup (see page 54):
S Replace brief recordsĊReplaces local brief records with records from the
Alliance Plus data source.
S Replace full recordsĊReplaces local full records with records from the
Alliance Plus data source.
S Update full record review sources and reading/interest levelsĊReplaces the
local record's reading and interest levels with information from the Alliance