Re: to Voyager or not to Voyager (Caitlin Downing) Skwor, Jeanette 23 Jun 2005 13:02 UTC
I agree with Caitlin, we use it and love it. I would add it is also extremely easy to edit the pattern, so if you were expecting no. 734, June 27, and what came in is no. 734/735, June 27 & July 4, it's No Big Deal. You need to make POs to pay for the title anyway, so here, at least, that was not a big issue. Having each title on a separate PO leaves us with the freedom to cancel or not pay for any reason (e.g., one behind on publication or skipping a volume year) title per title. Jeanette L. Skwor Cofrin Library University of WI-Green Bay (920) 465-2670 "Libraries will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no libraries." Anne Herbert, The Whole Earth Catalog -----Original Message----- From: SERIALST: Serials in Libraries Discussion Forum [mailto:SERIALST@LIST.UVM.EDU] On Behalf Of Bob Persing Sent: Thursday, June 23, 2005 7:02 AM To: SERIALST@LIST.UVM.EDU Subject: Re: [SERIALST] to Voyager or not to Voyager (Caitlin Downing) Subject: RE: [SERIALST] to Voyager or not to Voyager (3 messages) Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2005 12:44:07 -0700 From: "Downing Caitlin" <cdowning@santarosa.edu> To: "SERIALST: Serials in Libraries Discussion Forum" <SERIALST@LIST.UVM.EDU> Dear Sunny: I also agree that Voyager is much superior for check-in than any manual system. I have an idea what you mean by cumbersome: that for every check-in record you are required to enter a line-item P.O. in Acquisitions (which is unnecessary with some ILS systems). And there is the issue of having to individually suppress older issues from the OPAC so that they do not fill up the OPAC screen. And that the statement of holdings is not automatically updated after each checkin (as with some systems). But once your orders are in place and you have become accustomed to the system's requirements, check-in is pretty much a breeze. I especially like the ability to enter special issues with titles, and indexes. I also think that Voyager's adherence to Marc Format Holdings Data puts it at the head of the class. Sincerely, Caitlin Downing Library - Periodicals Santa Rosa Jr. College 1501 Mendocino Ave. Santa Rosa, CA 95401 -----Original Message----- From: SERIALST: Serials in Libraries Discussion Forum [mailto:SERIALST@LIST.UVM.EDU] On Behalf Of Yoon, Sunny Sent: Monday, May 23, 2005 2:33 PM To: SERIALST@LIST.UVM.EDU Subject: [SERIALST] to Voyager or not to Voyager Hi, One of our reference librarians here who had consulted before for numerous libraries brought up the idea that we could perhaps return to manual check-in and tracking for our ~500 journals. We currently use Voyager Acquisitions which has been cumbersome for us in many respects. I can see that this would be easier to deal with in certain respects but also think that we would then lose the integrated information management that Voyager offers. I would love to hear other perspectives on this issue, so please feel free to respond! Thanks, Sunny _____________________________ Sunny Yoon E-Resource/Serials Librarian Robert W. Van Houten Library New Jersey Institute of Technology 323 King Blvd, Newark, NJ 07102-1982 t: 973.596.3205 * f: 973.643.5601 yoon@adm.njit.edu