invisible online access, or, that was a gopher!

Try this in whatever ILS cataloging module you can get your paws on:

Search for all the records with 856 fields either containing NO $u or an empty $u.

In Millennium create lists, the search was:
856 not equal to {nothing} AND 856|u equal to {nothing}

I did that search out of morbid curiosity and got a surprise: we had 250+ miscoded and/or obsolete 856s that had piled up over time. The result was catalog records that said: ONLINE ACCESS! And then showed the user no link or a non-functioning link (as in it just reloaded the catalog record over and over again).

These are now cleaned up in our catalog. Hurrah!

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