Steve,
Years ago, FAXON had just that
type of system. It was great. My missing issues went to 0.
I have mentioned this to a
number of vendors.
I too wish that EBSCO could do
something like it.
Rita
Rita M. Koller'95
Serials Librarian
Lake Forest College
Donnelley and Lee Library
555 N. Sheridan Road
Lake Forest, IL 60045-2396
847-735-5065
From: SERIALST: Serials
in Libraries Discussion Forum [mailto:SERIALST@list.uvm.edu] On Behalf Of BLACK,
STEVE
Sent: Monday, November 01, 2010 2:24 PM
To: SERIALST@LIST.UVM.EDU
Subject: [SERIALST] I wish subscription agents would develop an
acquisitions program
Here's why.
We're a Voyager library, and the last upgrade spurred me to
abandon MFHD 853/863. We put our holdings info back into MFHD 866 and set
"recent issues" to not display in the OPAC. Now that holdings are in the
textual 866 field, in theory our check-in and claims could be separate from the
ILS, since no info from the acquisitions module is displayed to patrons.
We have toyed with going to an open source ILS like Koha. My
understanding is that Koha doesn't have an acquisitions module (yet). Perhaps
subscription agents could build on what they already do and develop a workable
acquisitions program for their customers.
EBSCO happens to be our subscription agent. The idea I've
shared with my sales rep is they should develop an extension of EBSCOnet for
check-in that "talks" with orders, claiming, and especially their
data on when publishers have dispatched issues (kept within "volume/issue
information"). Such a system would be able to distinguish delays in publication
from missed issues, so a claim would not be generated until it is known the
issue has been published. Eliminating system-generated claims for issues not
yet published would save both libraries and EBSCO work processing claims. A
separate report could alert libraries to delays in publication.
The main idea is to integrate check-in with the agents’
order and claim data, rather than having that process reside separately in the
ILS.
Steve
Black
Serials
& Reference Librarian
Neil
Hellman Library
The
College of Saint Rose
432
Western Ave.
Albany,
NY 12203
(518)
458-5494
blacks@strose.edu