Hi Julianne,

 

One more suggestion is to set up separate holdings and thus separate receiving records for the different frequencies. I’ve done that before when there are special annual issues for certain titles that don’t relate to pagination or issue numbering of “regular” issues of a journal.

Thanks,

Rebecca

 

 

 

Thanks to all for their suggestions. Unfortunately, I’m not sure if they will work.  If we add identifiers like month or season to the publication pattern, then Polaris automatically adds them to the issues it predicts we’ll receive.  Changes can only be made within that pattern format and information can’t be added to individual issues that wasn’t set up in the serials holding record.  That is, if I include “season” in the pattern, I can’t add a new issue with a “month” designator.  I’ve tried doing something like this before (adding a supplemental issue), and the ILS won’t do it.  I guess I can always leave “January” and “[season]” off the listing and just go with volume/issue numbers for identification, but we’ve tried to be as completely accurate as possible in the past and I wanted to do that here if possible.  I will probably contact the ILS to see if they can offer any options and otherwise try to figure it out.

 

 

 

Julianne,

 

Alternatively, you could have the pattern set to 5x/year and have the receiver manually enter the season when s/he checks in the issue. Also, you could set the pattern 4x/year with the correct seasons and have the receiver manually enter in the January issue when it comes in. I have worked with records set up both ways when I was a receiver. In such cases there was a “pop-up” or “check-in” note that reminded the receiver to do this when they landed on the record.

 

Kat

 

Katherine Hart

Electronic & Continuing Resources Librarian

Georgia State University Library

100 Decatur Street, SE

Atlanta, GA 30303

404-413-2796

khart@gsu.edu

 

 

 

 

Julianne,

I suspect your easiest "reset" would be to make the pattern 6x/year,
and mark one of the issues as "Not published".  You can then manually
change the expected issues to whatever you want, and also change the
expected dates.

Sue

Hi All,

 

Hoping someone can help me out with a dilemma I’ve just encountered while trying to set up a new prediction pattern for a print periodical.

 

“How” used to be a bi-monthly publication.  Simple to predict.  Now, however, they’ve gone to a quarterly publication schedule (seasonal) with one extra issue in January, for 5 total issues per year.  The problem I’ve discovered is that I can’t figure out how to set up the pattern in our Polaris ILS.  The January issue (no. 1 of the volume run) shows the month, but the other issues in the year will now have the season as their designator (no. 2 is Spring, no. 3 is Summer, no. 4 is Autumn, no. 5 is Winter).  I’ve tried creating an annual pattern for the January issue and then a quarterly pattern for the remainder, but the reset at the end of the pattern threw things off (to where no. 1 in the next volume would be Spring, not January); obviously the issue (no.) sequence doesn’t continue, and those aren’t other options.  Does anyone have any suggestions for how to get this to work?

 

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