At Kent State University, we use III’s
Millennium Serials module, which allows us to barcode each individual issue at
point of check-in and then once the issues are bound, we can simply compress
the existing item records for all of the issues of the volume into one new item
record using the “check in bound” function. The statistics for each issue are retained
in this new item record. I’m not sure how they pull out the statistics for each
individual issue from this new item record. That’s handled by our systems
staff.
Anita
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Anita L. Martin
University Libraries
Serials & Electronic Resources
Phone: 330-672-1689
FAX: 330-672-3024
Email: almarti1@kent.edu
From: SERIALST:
Serials in Libraries Discussion Forum [mailto:SERIALST@LIST.UVM.EDU] On Behalf Of Kathleen Dougherty
Sent: Tuesday, September 20, 2011
3:57 PM
To: SERIALST@LIST.UVM.EDU
Subject: [SERIALST] tracking usage
of current print journal issues
Hi,
I’m a new serials librarian. We are
barcoding our bound journal issues for inventory and statistical purposes. But
with current issues, we'll be deleting those individual barcodes once they are
bound and replacing them with one for the bound volume, and would therefore
lose the stats associated with those barcodes. I’d be interested to hear
how other libraries handle this issue.
Thanks.
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Kate Dougherty
Electronic Resources & Government Documents
Librarian
Leonard S. Washington Memorial Library
Southern University at
504-286-5222