SERIALS REVIEW
Volume 21, Number 4 (Winter 1995)
ISSN 0098-7913

Description and Evaluation of the "Mr. Serials" Process: Automatically
Collecting, Organizing, Archiving, Indexing, and Disseminating
Electronic Serials
     Eric Lease Morgan

        This article describes the Mr. Serials Process, a systematic
method being applied at the North Carolina State University (NCSU)
Libraries for collecting, organizing, archiving, indexing, and
disseminating electronic serials.  Using readily-available
technologies found on the Internet (FTP, WAIS, gopher, HTTP, perl,
procmail, e-mail), the Mr. Serials Process has proven an effective
means for the management of electronic serials that are consistently
formatted and delivered via e-mail.  pp 1-12
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Archiving Electronic Journals
     Gordon B. Neavil and Mary Ann Sheble

        Libraries must take an active role in collecting and archiving
electronic journals to ensure that their contents remain accessible to
users as far into the future as possible.  The CICNet electronic
journals project represents a promising example of cooperative
network-based archiving undertaken by the library community, but at
the present stage of development the most reliable archiving option is
for individual libraries or library consortia to obtain electronic
journals directly from the network and establish their own access and
archiving procedures.  Problems involved in long-term electronic
archiving include the short life expectancies of digital storage
media, hardware and software dependency, and the need for
authentication devices to distinguish between versions of electronic
records and ensure that there are no unidentified changes in content.
pp 13-21
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Series Authority Records in an Integrated System: Enhancing Catalog
Effectiveness
     Beatrice L. McKay and Beverley Geer

        In a manual environment, the series authority file was created
and maintained by the cataloging department, which was also its
primary user.  Today, integrated library systems make the series
authority file accessible to all departments, thus extending its
usefulness beyond traditional boundaries.  In the debate over the
costs and benefits of series authority work, the authors hold that,
especially in light of today's easy, universal access to the online
file, a consistent and well maintained series authority file is not
only philosophically defensible but also of considerable practical
value to all catalog users -- cataloging and acquisitions staff,
bibliographers and reference librarians, and library patrons.
        An overview of series authority control sets the scene for a
discussion of the work done at Trinity University to enhance the basic
series authority record with local cataloging, acquisitions, and
processing information.  pp 23-34
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Templates: Providing Structure for Implementing NOTIS LSER Module
Receiving Records
     Marjorie Wilhite

        Staff in the Serials Acquisitions Unit at the University of
Iowa Libraries designed and implemented a project to create thousands
of predictive check-in records for serial subscriptions in the LSER
module of NOTIS.  Focus of the project design was to provide quality
records at minimal cost in the four month time period.  pp 35-60
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Electronic Journals Forum: Migration to Electronic Distribution
Through OCLC'S Electronic Journals Online
     Tom Moothart

        This column explores OCLC's collaboration with publishers who
are making traditional print publications available electronically.
Serials Review interviewed Andrea Keyhani, Manager of Electronic
Publishing at OCLC, about their programs.  pp 61-65
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The Balance Point: Cataloging Remote-Access Electronic Serials:
Rethinking the Role of the OPAC
     Edited by Ellen Finnie Duranceau, with contributions by Martha Hruska,
Wayne Jones, Eric Lease Morgan, Regina Reynolds, and Allison Mook
Sleeman

        In examining whether libraries should use their catalogs to
lead users to electronic serials they do not own, and do not control,
or whether the catalog should remain pure, including only those
resources acquired and managed by the library, five writers here
attempt to reconsider and redefine the OPAC's purpose in an era of
Internet publishing.  pp 67-77
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Tools of the Serials Trade
     Edited by Teresa Malinowski, with contributions from Janet Fisher,
Shiela Osheroff, Roger L. Presley, and David Winchester

        Janet Fisher reviews Librarians and Publishers in the
Scholarly Information Process: Transition in the Electronic Age,
Shiela Osheroff reviews The Electronic Journal: The Future of
Serials-Based Information, Roger L. Presley reviews Basic Budgeting
Practice for the Librarians, Second Edition, and David E. Winchester
reviews The Whole Library Handbook 2: Current Data, Professional
Advice, and Curiosa About Libraries and Library Services.  pp 81-86
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Serials Spoken Here: Reports from Conferences, Institutes and Seminars
     Edited by Susan Davis, with contributions from Lisa Eichholtz,
Jennifer L. Reaves, Marifran Bustion, Jodi Williamschen, and Susan
Davis

Lisa Eichholtz reports on the annual meeting of the Medical Library
Association, Jennifer Reaves describes NASIG's 10th anniversary
conference, and Marifran Bustion, Jodi Williamschen and Susan Davis
report on four serials-related sessions at the American Library
Association annual meeting.  pp 87-96
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Serials Review Index
     Edited by Douglas A DeLong

        The editors scan approximately 150 journals in all disciplines
for review of serial publications.  Journals published since the
spring of 1994 were monitored for this installment.  pp 97-110

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SERIALS REVIEW is published quarterly by JAI Press Inc. and edited by:

Cindy Hepfer
Health Sciences Library
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State University of New York at Buffalo
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