Hello!

     I'm wondering if anybody in the list is also having problem in
     maintaining the holdings of their database.  We have to delete all
     check-ins and do the compression of holdings manually (i.e., if we
     have 100 check-in items we have to delete each of the 100 items).
     This really takes up a lot of time, specially for our newspapers (we
     have more than 90 titles, and some even have duplicates). And this is
     even aggrevated by the fact that everytime a issue is checked-in, an
     extension record of the tag 863 appears to reflect the newly
     checked-in item.

     Because of staff changes, newspaper holdings have not been maintained
     and we still have the discarded issues reflected in our OPAC.  We're
     using VTLS and, according our Systems Librarian, there's no way to do
     batch deletion of check-in items.

     If anyone has similar experiences, please share how you handled this
     problem.  Please reply to me directly.

     Thank you.

     Regards,

     Lei P. Correo
     Serials Unit, Library
     Asian Development Bank
     #6 ADB Avenue, Mandaluyong City
     Philippines
     Tel. No. : (632) 632-4370
     Fax No.  : (632) 632-5020
     E-mail   : lcorreo@mail.asiandevbank.org