So I’ve been responsible for periodicals as well as e-resources for a long time now, but e-resources have gotten much more of my attention.

But I’ve lived with the checkin record encoding that I inherited for a long time.  Now I’m going to make some changes, but I want to ask what is common practice.  The 2 serial codes of concern in the checkin record (Innovative) are

Serial code 1 – COMPLETENESS                                Serial code 2 – Status

I have only been keeping up Status, distinguishing between Active and Inactive.  I have not been recording COMPLETENESS.

I have never known what was intended by COMP(DISC’TN) – seems that it should just be DISCONT. By Publisher, and the scode1 will tell you whether it’s COMPLETE or not.  And I’ve only inferred that they meant for DISCONT to be “discontinued by publisher” and if it’s cancelled, it would be “INACTIVE”.  But I’m thinking of making a separate category for CANCELLED By BPL.

I don’t know why I’ve hestitated to add a category for CANCELLED (so far I’ve just put them under INACTIVE), but I thought I’d ask you all what you do.

Cindy Harper