Immediate/Daily/Other

• All online cataloging transactions (through WebCAT and AGCat) are indexed and visible in the PAC instantaneously.
• Records that are merged daily from the OCLC FTP service (including CatExpress records) are indexed on Sundays, Tuesdays and Thursdays and are visible in the PAC on the day following the indexing.
• The Library of Congress MARC database (available only to AGCat users) is updated daily.
• Holdings of the Connecticut Judicial Branch Law Libraries are updated biweekly.

Monthly

• The Government Documents database, which is integrated into the main reQuest database, is updated on a monthly basis.
• Libraries using Auto-Graphics' Verso ILS (ASP) automatically have their records loaded into reQuest the last Friday of each month.
• Individual libraries and networks are encouraged to submit their libraries' holdings to reQuest on a monthly basis or as often as possible. Records are loaded into reQuest at 10 p.m. Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. The reQuest database is indexed Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Sundays at midnight. Therefore records received by Auto-Graphics should be visible in reQuest within five days.

Annually

• The Connecticut Union List of Serials (CULS) database is normally updated once per year and integrated into the reQuest Magazine/Serials Catalog. OCLC has been unable to provide us with a file of CULS since July 2005.
• Authority Control is run over the reQuest database once per year in July/August. This process updates the name and subject authority headings in the records. The process is done offline and then records modified in the process are merged back into the database. All data loads are stopped until Authority Control is finished.

For more information about updating reQuest, contact Gail Hurley, Statewide
Library Catalog Coordinator Telephone: (860) 704-2222 or toll free (888) 256-1222