Hello Rachael,

As far as I know, it doesn’t matter. We typically use one 866 field with punctuation. If there are a lot of gaps, we add a note to the end of the 866 and  multiple 583 fields. It’s cleaner, less confusing for our patrons, and we add numbering to item records anyway. Example:

866 31 $a vol. 1 no. 5- (May 1999-) Scattered issues available 
583 __ $a vol. 1 no. 5-6 (May-June 1999)
583 __ $a vol. 6 no. 3 (Mar. 2005)

I hope this helps!

Rachel Clark
Metadata Librarian
Special Collections and Archives Division 
Eugene McDermott Library

On Mon, Feb 8, 2021 at 11:46 AM Rachael Davis <davirach@ohsu.edu> wrote:

Hi out there Alma Serials Warriors,

 

I have a question that’s been gnawing at me since I moved libraries (both of which use Alma and are in the same Alliance). One library uses a single 866 Holdings statement and just uses punctuation (comma, semicolon) to indicate gaps and non-gap breaks in holdings per ANSI/NISO Z39.71-2006 (R2011) like this:

 

866         31 |a v.22(1991)-v.23(1992),v.49(2000)-v.51(2004)

 

and the other uses multiple Holdings statements like this:

 

866         31 |a v.22(1991)-v.23(1992) |8 1.1

866         31 |a v.49(2000)-v.51(2004) |8 1.2

 

Which one is correct per Alma or does it matter? I’ve done a little research and it seems you might be able to use both in Alma but I wanted to check with what others have been doing.

 

Kind Regards,

 

Rachael

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