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Date:         Tue, 12 Sep 2000 13:16:45 -0400
From:         Marcia Leah Adamy <madamy@LIFE.EDU>
Subject:      Re: UCMP - Serhold question - Medical Library
Comments: To: Terry Selfe <tselfe@life.edu>, David Free <dfree@life.edu>,
          Danielle Knowles <dknowles@life.edu>

Rose,

I am dying for such service, but then we are pretty much starting from
scratch.  Do you have contact information for UCMP?

Marcia Adamy

Rose LaJudice wrote:
>
> Dear People,
>
> I work in a medical library and for years we have used the UCMP service
> (The company is known as the Medical Library Center of New  York) to
> update our serial holdings.  If I understand correctly they act as a
> clearing house to update other sources Docline, OCLC, Serhold,
> Microfiche, local Union Lists(?) ...

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Technical Services Librarian
Life University
Nell K. Williams, L.R.C.
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Marietta GA  30060
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Date:         Tue, 12 Sep 2000 11:18:58 -0500
From:         Alfred Kraemer <akraemer@MCW.EDU>
Subject:      Re: UCMP - Serhold question - Medical Library

Rose,

If your Serhold information is already in fairly good shape, it could well
be more cost-effective - and presumably also more timely - to perform the
ongoing updating yourself.
You may want to obtain an access code -if you don't have one yet- to see
first hand how the online updating is done.
We recently obtained a complete holdings listing for our library from
Serhold, compared the Serhold data with the data in our local system, and
identified titles for which our holdings need to be updated.
Currently, we are in the process of making about 200 updates.
While I'm still disappointed that Serhold does not accept holdings data at
the level which we use in our local system, the new Serhold updating
procedure is a big improvement.

Alfred Kraemer
Head, Technical Services
Medical College of Wisconsin Libraries
8701 Watertown Plank Road
Milwaukee, WI 53226

Phone: 414-456-4273
E-Mail: akraemer@mcw.edu

----- Original Message -----
From: "Rose LaJudice" <lajudice@ACSU.BUFFALO.EDU>
To: <SERIALST@LIST.UVM.EDU>
Sent: Tuesday, September 12, 2000 8:52 AM
Subject: UCMP - Serhold question - Medical Library

> Dear People,
>
> I work in a medical library and for years we have used the UCMP service
> (The company is known as the Medical Library Center of New  York) to
> update our serial holdings.  If I understand correctly they act as a
> clearing house to update other sources Docline, OCLC, Serhold,
> Microfiche, local Union Lists(?)
>
> Recently due to the development of Docline going on the web there is now
> a way to go in directly into their website and and update our journal
> holdings ourselves. There is talk here of dropping UCMP completely.
>
> Is anyone else also dealing with this decision?  Can you provide me
> with anyother information?  I will attempt to call UCMP directly today
> but I am finding I am not getting clear answers.  I assume these
> companies want our business and choose not to share the
> correct information.  This might be unique to New York State (?)
>
> Much thanks
>
> Rose M. LaJudice
> Library Tech
> Aaron Health Sciences Library
> Buffalo, NY
> lajudice@acsu.buffalo.edu