Charlene,

This is an interesting question because the Receipt Status code should
certainly be one of the useful responses to a remote query.
Locally, we are using 4 for currently received items that come through our
order system (which happens to be III).  We use 1 for the many
publications that departments receive "direct" bypassing the order system.
And that's undoubtedly not uniform even across our campus!

The only other definition here that I have ever seen is the one in
Virginia Tech's Coded Holdings Manual, which I believe in my dim memory
prescribes 4 for currently received periodicals, 1 for annuals and
irregulars.

I'd be interested in other uses and so, I think, would many of us.  When
we think of standardizing the use of this format, the fixed field is
certainly a good place to start.
 Frieda
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Frieda Rosenberg
Serials Cataloging
Univ. of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
friedat@email.unc.edu

On Thu, 1 Jul 1999, Charlene N Simser wrote:

> Hello--
> Anyone out there using ANSI/NISO Z39.71-199x (or its predecessor
> Z39.44-1986 for serials):
>
> How does your library interpret "Receipt Status" in the holdings 008 field
> for web-based products? Do you use "4" for currently received though you
> have no physical pieces in hand?  Or do you code these as "1" for other
> receipt status? What uses have you defined for "1"?  We would like to be
> consistent of our coding of these resources, especially if we use
> information in that field to generate reports.
>
> Thanks for any input.
> Char
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> Charlene N. Simser
> Serials Cataloger
> KSU Libraries
> Kansas State University
> Manhattan, KS 66506
> e-mail: csimser@ksu.edu