Many earthquake resources expire on 28 Feb. Our preference is to remove these resources before they expire and before the beginning of term as there are so many to delete it will slow Horizon down. Horizon will then need to be reindexed and the space recovered which is best done in a weekend. We need a MARC load from Serials Solutions and the catalogue records removed from MultiSearch. An OSMOSIS load also needs to be fitted in. This is a long winded explaination of why we will start removing the earthquake resources from the catalogue next week. Records for databases and some packages of well used ebooks such as Palgrave will remain a little longer in the catalogue. MultiSearch access will remain where the package is indexed by Serials Solutions until a couple of days before the expiry date. Datasets will consider purchasing some of the higher used and recommended resourses, but in practice this will be constrained by the budget. Use it now as it is about to go. Cheers Anne
Great! It would be best if all the earthquake resources that expire on 28 Feb. are completely removed before start of term on 21 Feb. Otherwise these temporary e-resources could well clutter up search results and create confusion and frustration amongst new and returning students and in library tutorials.
Max
We have now started working on removing these – tens of thousands of records will go so you might start to get queries at desks. I will organize a Library news item shortly…