Millenium Serial Users (2 messages) Marcia Tuttle 30 Oct 2003 18:38 UTC
----------1 Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2003 08:59:20 -0800 From: "Palmiter, Sherry" <PALMITER@seattleu.edu> Subject: RE: [SERIALST] Millenium Serial Users My library will be converting to the Innovative/Millenium system soon. We are currently reviewing our options for holdings data presentation. I would be very interested in the responses to Jane's questions below. Thank you. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Sherry Palmiter Continuations Librarian Seattle University, Lemieux Library Seattle, WA 98122 ph. : 206-296-6204 fax : 206-296-2572 -----Original Message----- From: jschmidt@RYERSON.CA [mailto:jschmidt@RYERSON.CA] Sent: Thursday, October 30, 2003 5:44 AM To: SERIALST@LIST.UVM.EDU Subject: [SERIALST] Millenium Serial Users This question is for those that are using Innovative/Millenium Serials with Marc Format for Holdings Data. Ryerson has been running MilSer for 3 years, and we now want to convert our retrospective holdings into full MARC. Currently they are free-text summaries (Lib Has 1971 to the present) with no details about gaps/missing issues, etc. We are in the helpdesk queue waiting for an export profile to be set up. Will 863 fields will be generated from the check-in cards when the record is exported? For our currently checked-in titles we don't see these fields display in MilSer, so we can't tell that they are really there. But my understanding is that this information is stored in MARC format as the issues are received. Do you display the 866 field to to the public (i.e. $a1976 to the present. $zsome gaps) rather than 863 fields containing the detailed gaps? 863s in records with broken holdings create a cluttered display that is difficult to read. If you are displaying that information, do your users like it? Is there a way to suppress those fields from the OPAC but retain them for reporting purposes? I would also appreciate if someone could critique a test record that I have created. Does Millenium automatically generate the NISO standard punctuation, or does the standard have to be manually input? If anyone can be of assitance (or chooses to be!), we would be very appreciative. Having no experience with this format is rather challenging; new questions are arising each day. Even if anyone has any hints or tricks to share regarding the implementation of MFHD into Innovative, it would be a help. You may contact me off list: jschmidt@ryerson.ca Thanks very much, Jane Schmidt, Serials Librarian Intern Collections Team Ryerson University Library ----------2 Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2003 12:28:00 -0600 From: "Peterson, Kathleen" <PETERSON@Grinnell.EDU> Subject: RE: [SERIALST] Millenium Serial Users Would you post replies on this subject to the list, or a summary of replies? This may also be in our future and I'm interested in what other libraries are doing. TIA. Kathy Peterson Serials Dept. Burling Library 1111 6th Ave. Grinnell College Grinnell, IA 50112 Phone: (641) 269-3361 Fax: (641) 269-4283 E-mail: Peterson@grinnell.edu