Great point Steve check in records
are not as important as they used to be in the OPAC.
It may be difficult to get all
serials vendors to allow a subscription agent to use their publication
schedule, however I would be happy if they just used data from other libraries ,
like OCLC. If some libraries in the system have already received an
edition, it would be profitable to claim. if no one has received it then
we could assume that the edition is late. We would not each have to make corrections
with change of schedule, title, address, etc. etc. etc. Hive mind
technology would save us a lot of time.
Every year I expect improvement
in acquisitions programs and every year I am sadly disappointed. It
does not seem to be very high on their priority list. I wish we could all get
together and come up with a list of needed improvements to our
acquisitions programs (We might even open up the ERM can of worms),
submit it with our names to our vendors, just maybe they will take an
international list of librarians seriously and initiate the changes.
Curleen
Elliott
Serials
& Acquisitions
Baker
Library
Norwalk
Community College
188
Richards Avenue
Norwalk, CT
06854
(203)
857-7215
Fx: (203)
857-7380
"Reading is not just an escape. It is access to a better
way of life."
Karin Slaughter
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
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