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-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: Serials Holdings Lists -- Christina Liggins
Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2000 13:22:24 -0500
From: Greg Szczyrbak <Greg.Szczyrbak@millersv.edu>

What software did you use to create the list that you have now?

We have a similar list.  We use Microsoft Access to maintain it.  When
we
starting EBSCOHOST, I asked EBSCO to send us a list of the journals in
an
Excel sheet.  Then I imported the Excel sheet into our Access database.
That was the easy part.  You have already identified the difficult part
-
keeping up with the changes.  I haven't found a satisfactory way to do
this.
EBSCO provides a place that shows database changes, but it doesn't
include
all the information that you need, such as the date that thew full text
starts.

If you have other questions, feel free to contact me.

Gregory Szczyrbak
Millersville University
Ganser Library - Periodicals
Millersville University PA  17602
717.872.3645

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-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: Serials Holdings Lists -- Christina Liggins
Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2000 12:28:16 -0600
From: "Pennington, Buddy" <buddy.pennington@rockhurst.edu>

Is EbscoHost the only FT database you have?  If so, I would create a
separate list of Ebsco Journals and have that available with your local
holdings list.  Is your local holdings list in a database like Microsoft
Access?  You could incorporate the two lists into a single database and
use
that to print out a combined list of the journals available locally and
in
EbscoHost.

Whatever you do , do not enter FT database holdings information into
your
OPAC manually.  Not only is it very labor intensive to enter the
holdings,
it is even more labor intensive to constantly check those holdings
against
the FT database holdings (which we all know change on  a constant
basis).  I
download the holdings files from the database vendors' websites and
import
the information into an Access Database.  Then I do some tweaking to
clean
up the data, and I am done.  The whole process takes me a couple of
hours
for a database of over 15,000 records in about 8 FT databases.  I plan
on
doing this twice per year (summer and Christmas break) to reflect any
changes in the FT databases.

Whatever you do, think about how you can keep it current without
spending a
lot of time on labor.  And good luck!!

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

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Serials Holdings Lists
Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2000 11:25:50 -0500
From: Christina Liggins <cliggins@CHC.EDU>

Our library has a Serials Holdings List for all our print/microformed
journals and indexes. We have recently subscribed to Ebscohost, which is
a
database that contains the full-text versions of many periodical titles.
One suggestion has been that we add all of the periodical titles covered
in
full-text in Ebscohost to our Holdings List.  Have any other libraries
done
this?  What is your advice on this matter?

Would another way of approaching this be to make a note in our Holdings
List that we subscribe to Ebscohost and then provide a separate list of
which journals are covered in full-text in Ebscohost?  I know that the
full-text coverage could change quickly in Ebscohost and other databases
of
this type.  Thanks for any help.

Christina Liggins

-----Original Message-----
From: Stephen D. Clark [mailto:sdclar@mail.wm.edu]
Sent: Thursday, February 24, 2000 1:20 PM
To: SERIALST@LIST.UVM.EDU
Subject: Serials Holdings Lists -- Christina Liggins

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Serials Holdings Lists
Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2000 11:25:50 -0500
From: Christina Liggins <cliggins@CHC.EDU>

Our library has a Serials Holdings List for all our print/microformed
journals and indexes. We have recently subscribed to Ebscohost, which is
a
database that contains the full-text versions of many periodical titles.
One suggestion has been that we add all of the periodical titles covered
in
full-text in Ebscohost to our Holdings List.  Have any other libraries
done
this?  What is your advice on this matter?

Would another way of approaching this be to make a note in our Holdings
List that we subscribe to Ebscohost and then provide a separate list of
which journals are covered in full-text in Ebscohost?  I know that the
full-text coverage could change quickly in Ebscohost and other databases
of
this type.  Thanks for any help.

Christina Liggins