Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2000 08:19:33 -0600
From: "Pennington, Buddy" <buddy.pennington@ROCKHURST.EDU>
Subject: Re: Periodical Check-in Program (Pauline Liu)

I personally would use Access over Excel.  As far as I know, Access can do
everything that Excel does but you have even more flexibility in setting up
forms, qeries, reports, etc.  I currently use Access to manage my serials
information (claims, binding, retention procedures, subscription information
etc.), but do not use it for checking in.

What automated system do you use?  We use DRA and it has a serials module
that lets you checkin items.  This has the added benefit of being visible to
users who need to know if current issues have arrived yet.

Buddy Pennington
Acquisitions/Serials Librarian
Rockhurst University Greenlease Library
buddy.pennington@rockhurst.edu
#816-501-4143

Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2000 13:26:57 -0800 (PST)
From: Pauline Liu <pycliu@HOTMAIL.COM>
Subject: Periodical Check-in Program

Hi,

   I have recently accepted an additional duty of managing our serial
collection.  I am a new subscriber to this list too. We are currently using
the traditional kardex (cards) to manually check in periodicals. I am
thinking of using Microsoft Excel to check in and store the periodicals
data, so that I can sort, filter and manipulate the data.  I also heard that
some libraries use Microsoft Access.  Any suggestions?

Thanks.

Pauline