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Subject: Re: Serials Holdings Lists -- Carol Morse
Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2000 08:48:53 -0600
From: "Pennington, Buddy" <buddy.pennington@rockhurst.edu>

I agree that it is easier to look up titles in a print list...if you
have
the print list in front of you.  What do you do about users who are not
in
the building?  When I used the library in college, I almost always did
my
citation searching at home and looked up the journals to see if they
were
available, before I went to the library.  I know a lot of users do this
as
well.

I don't like the idea of putting electronic information into the OPAC
because I do not find our OPAC's serials module easy to use, plus we are
in
a consortium and we don't want to put in records that link to databases
that
only our library users have access to (there are 25 libraries in the
consortium and they do not share database access).  I think the perfect
solution is a weblist on the library's homepage, which is accessible to
users at a computer, in or out of the building.  Also, if you keep the
serial information in MS Access, it is easy to download and maintain
lists
of serials in FT Databases.  All the vendors have files of their
holdings
that you can download and import into MS Access in seconds.

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

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Subject: Re: Serials Holdings Lists -- Christina Liggins
Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2000 14:23:36 -0800
From: Carol Morse <MorsCa@wwc.edu>

Quite a number of years ago, a staff member entered our serials holdings
into  Word Perfect files.  Every year before school starts, we go in the
update the changes which have been entered in red ink in 2 of the
departmental copies.  There are other copies up in the lobby near the
computers and in our reading room.  It was very labor-intensive to begin
with, but not so bad to update it every year.  Last summer, we added
notations for full text for the journals we have that are FT from
EbscoHost.  We will do Proquest this summer.  We just don't worry about
listing the ones offered on full-text that we never got.  This has been
useful, because we dropped a few which were not used a lot in favor of
full-text.  So when someone complains, we point them to EbscoHost.  It's
easier to look in a notebook than to log onto the online catalog just to
see if we have a certain title.  We bind some of them in red buckrum or
put them in bright red plastic binders.  So they are unofficially called
"The Red Book."  Hope this helps.
Carol