I’m very new to Horizon, but are you suggesting a means of Horizon utilizing the 853 fields to establish the prediction patterns? I was told there was no way to do that, but it would save us a lot of effort, as we just began using the Serials module, and transferred data from another vendor who only provided the MARC records on the transfer.

Charles L. King

Serials Librarian

Hawaii State Library

Hawaii State Public Library System

478 S. King Street

Honolulu, HI 96813-2994

From: SERIALST: Serials in Libraries Discussion Forum [mailto:SERIALST@list.uvm.edu] On Behalf Of Mark Hemhauser
Sent: Monday, August 06, 2012 5:54 AM
To: SERIALST@LIST.UVM.EDU
Subject: Re: [SERIALST] MFHD question

Here’s how we’ve predicted it using a MARC holdings format:

853 $8 99 $a v. $b no. $u 6 $v r $i (year)$j (month) $w b

853X $8 99 $9 02001 $a 44 $b ½ $i 2013 $j 01/02 $3 20130203

The $8 and $9 fields are unique to our subscription.

Mark

Mark Hemhauser

Systems Librarian

ILS Team--McKeldin Library

University of Maryland

College Park, MD

301-314-4812

From: SERIALST: Serials in Libraries Discussion Forum [mailto:SERIALST@list.uvm.edu] On Behalf Of Miriam Nauenburg
Sent: Friday, August 03, 2012 5:04 PM
To: SERIALST@LIST.UVM.EDU
Subject: Re: [SERIALST] MFHD question

Hi Lynn,

If you're setting up a prediction pattern, the frequency is bimonthly. Regarding the second level enumeration caption, the number of issues per year is 6. This field refers to the number of units per next higher level (in this case, the number of issues per volume, which is 6) rather the total numbered issues in a year (which can vary depending on how the publisher combines enumeration and chronology).

Volume and number are the first and second level enumeration captions, and year and month are the first and second level chronology captions, respectively. You would combine enumeration and chronology when naming each issue, e.g., v.43:no.7/8 (2012:July/Aug.).

I hope this helps. Please clarify if I'm not understanding your question.

Miriam

Miriam C. Nauenburg
Serials and Electronic Resources Cataloger
Ingram Library
University of West Georgia
Carrollton, GA 30118
Phone: (678) 839-5327
FAX: (678) 839-6511

Truth forever on the scaffold, Wrong forever on the throne. -James Russell Lowell

On 8/3/2012 12:01 PM, Coakley, Lynn wrote:

To all

Our network recently moved to a new platform. Our old vendor was III and after the kinks worked out, entering serials data was a breeze. This software (Evergreen) needs MFHD captions and patterns. I have a journal (American Libraries) that I'm trying to enter and for the life of me I cannot get any code to make it do what I want it to do. This publishes 6 times per year, Jan/Feb. etc. It's numbering is 1/2, 3/4 etc. so even though it is only 6 hard copies, there are 12 issues.

Does anyone know about captioning and patterning that you would be willing to share? I've found several training manuals (Yale has a nice one), but I haven't found an example that works.

Any advice would be appreciated. I know it's Friday - ignore it til Monday!

Thanks

Lynn

Lynn Coakley

Coordinator of Technical Services

Library

Springfield Technical Community College

One Armory Sq.

Springfield, MA 01102

413.755.4565

fax 413.755.6315

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