Re: Serial Prediction Patterns -- Mary Iber Stephen D. Clark 12 Oct 1999 07:41 UTC
-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: Serial Prediction Patterns -- Helaine Davis Date: Mon, 11 Oct 1999 16:23:10 -0700 From: Mary Iber <iber@act.org> Hi Helaine, Thanks for your suggestions. I think most of them will be very useful. I have heard the Serials person at TLC is very good, and I'm sure I'll get to be familiar with him as progress. Do you barcode each journal? Do you check out journals? We haven't figured out yet how we are going to do this. We do check out journal issues, but do not barcode (and don't want to) each issue. Our trainer said we'd have to set up separate MARC records (for the old issues, and the "from now forward" issues OR we would have to predict our serials from the beginning of our receiving them, and check them all in. Does this ring any bells with you? I'll explain more if this is also something you are dealing with. We haven't decided yet. I'm all for a 3rd alternative, but haven't thought of it yet! Mary Iber ______________________________ Reply Separator _________________________________ Subject: Re: Serial Prediction Patterns -- Helaine Davis Author: "SERIALST: Serials in Libraries Discussion Forum" <SERIALST@LIST.UVM.EDU> at internet Date: 10/11/99 8:27 AM -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: Serial Prediction Patterns -- Mary Iber Date: Fri, 8 Oct 1999 14:45:22 -0400 From: Helaine Davis <hdavis@MONH.ORG> Our library has just transferred over to "Library. Solutions" from "TinMan" (EOSi) also. We did get training which included the serials module. We have several irregular serials. When you click on regularity patterns you can click on month by month for those that you receive. If it is really irregular you can use the manual check in instead of prediction. The only problem is if you want to edit anything, you have make sure to return the problem issues before you edit each (I hope that you can understand what I mean). TLC does have a special serials person in the help desk also who is very patient. What I did was start with all our Ebsco serials since that was the largest amount of titles that we receive and then do others as they come in. I had been keeping a log of issues during our changeover so these are all input one by one. The rest of the holdings I will hopefully be able to put in the catalog record later. Helaine Davis, Library Assistant Van Gorden-Williams Library Museum of Our National Heritage Lexington, MA -------- Original Message -------- Subject: No subject given Date: Fri, 8 Oct 1999 09:36:18 -0700 From: Mary Iber <iber@act.org> Our library is in the process of switching to a new automated system. The only part of the serials record that transferred is the bib record. We are a corporate library and hold about 600 titles. We are going from EOSi Professional Series (DOS based) to The Library Corporation (Windows based). If any of you have experience or suggestions on the best procedure to follow for reentering prediction patterns, holdings, etc., please let me know. Did you start alphabetically, or make the changes as the serials arrive, or what? Did you try to transfer subscription history? Any estimate on how long it takes? We also route almost all of our subscriptions, so need to transfer routing lists. For a short time, I will have two computers on my desk, so I have the ability to have the record up from the old system and the new system at the same time. Any suggestions are welcome, whether they are general or specific. Thank you. Mary Iber ACT Library Iowa City, Iowa 319-337-1312 iber@act.org