I did a poster session on this topic at NASIG in 2009. We had the same problem because we have a lot of local newspapers on microfilm, government documents, and other titles that don't always have ISSNs. After many calls and emails to Serials Solutions to try to find a way to accomodate those titles, they told me I could use the OCLC number instead. First, I began with a list of the titles in question. Then, I created urls that would link to the catalog record by OCLC number. When testing the linking from Worldcat, it worked about 61% of the time. It worked even a little better if I also included what our holdings are for the title.
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Barbara M. Pope, MALS
Periodicals/Reference Librarian
Axe Library
Pittsburg State University
Pittsburg KS 66762
620-235-4884
bpope@pittstate.edu
On Thu, 22 Sep 2011 08:25:06 -0800, "Fearer, Kathleen E (EED)" <kathleen.fearer@ALASKA.GOV> wrote:
We upload a list of our currently received periodicals to A-to-Z quarterly. At this point, we include just the titles and the ISSN. We’ve thought about including holdings information, but due to the labor that would be required and the fact that users can just link back to the catalog record, we have not included the detailed holdings. We assign a note to the titles in our uploaded catalog data telling people that they can check the catalog for holdings information.
Katie Fearer
Public Services Librarian
Alaska State Library
P.O. Box 110571
Juneau, AK 99811-0571
907-465-2988
kathleen.fearer@alaska.gov
From: SERIALST: Serials in Libraries Discussion Forum [mailto:SERIALST@list.uvm.edu] On Behalf Of Kathleen Dougherty
Sent: Wednesday, September 21, 2011 5:03 PM
To: SERIALST@LIST.UVM.EDU
Subject: [SERIALST] including print holdings in journal A-Z list
Thanks very much to everyone who responded to my previous question about tracking usage of current serial issues. The responses were so helpful I thought I’d throw another question out to the list J
We have EBSCO A-Z, which currently lists online titles only. I was wondering if many libraries include print holdings in their A-Z lists, and if so, how often they update them?
Thanks.
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Kate Dougherty
Electronic Resources & Government Documents Librarian
Leonard S. Washington Memorial Library
Southern University at New Orleans
6400 Press Drive
New Orleans, LA 70126
504-286-5222