To those of you doing retrospective conversion of serials using the MARC
holdings format:  our library is undertaking a very large retrospective
conversion project. The tight deadline for completion will preclude an in-depth
inventory of our holdings.  I had thought to record our holdings at the summary
level (level 3), but then realized that we would still need to encode
frequency values in the 853 $w.  We simply will not have time to determine
frequency changes.  Unfortunately, the MARC values for the 853 $w do not
include a code for "unverified."  Has anyone encountered this problem, and
if so, how did you handle it?

[ed. note:  submitted by:  Margaret Wilson <mwilson@ukanvm.bitnet>]