Deleting items from Alma - Are they removed automatically from OCLC?

[jwalz]

We have withdrawn a bunch of really old items from our shelves.  We withdrew the records from Alma.   But now we have to also manually remove them from OCLC too??   Is there some automatic way they should be removed from OCLC?  (deleting our holdings)   It would be nice.

 IF there is some automatic way, it is NOT working for us.   Please let me know what maybe we need to do to set that up or get it working again.     

 Thanks!

Jennifer

[jdessino]

They are automatically deleted when you have the OCLC Data Syncronization setup and working properly, however, it doesn't necessarily happen immediately. If you have it working, you will get reports from OCLC in Worldshare Metadata that actually identifies the number of adds, updates, and deletes each time the Alma job runs and any errors.

[jwalz]

I do not think we have it set up correctly. Nothing was every automatically deleted. I waited about 4 days. How long does it take?

Any advice on how to set this up properly?

Thanks!

[jdessino]

Jennifer:

I'm at the Ex Libris User Conference until Friday, but could provide more info next week. Otherwise, some other school that has it working might be able to provide additional info. j

[jwalz]

Jacque,

Next week is fine. Have fun at the conference!

Thanks!

Jennifer

[infoprobh]

From what I've looked at it seems OCLC takes about 2 weeks to sync Alma holdings with WorldCat holdings.