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Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2001 09:24:02 -0700
From: Lai-Ying Hsiung <lhsiung@CATS.UCSC.EDU>
Subject: Re: Bar coding serials (Chris Brown-Syed)

We do not barcode unbound current journal issues at the last place I
worked.  However we do have similar situations like separate thin
government documents with barcodes.  If someone decides to bind several of
those issues together, we will use a marker to cross off all the existing
barcodes and put in a new one at the specified location (on the top right
hand corner of the inside cover) so as not to confuse the CIRC staff.

If these documents are of a serial nature, one item record with one barcode
will be attached to one bib. record.  If these documents are individual
titles, each with its own bib. record and item record, we will use the
GEAC's bindery entry to link the item records together.  Only one barcode
is needed in this case.  We normally supply a local note in the item record
to alert users that they are "bound with" items.  Sometimes those wordings
could be a challenge (I think this is true for most integrated library
systems I have seen).  Deleting binding entries in GEAC requires some
training and is not obvious from the screen options/prompts, nor from the
Cataloging Manual.

Lai-Ying Hsiung
McHenry Library--Serials
University of California, Santa Cruz
Santa Cruz, CA 95064

lhsiung@cats.ucsc.edu

At 01:46 PM 4/26/01 -0400, you wrote:
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>Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2001 12:29:48 -0400
>From: "ad6509@wayne.edu" <ad6509@WAYNE.EDU>
>Subject: Re: Bar coding serials (Lai-Ying Hsiung)
>
> >  From our experience, it is best to barcode the total run for each
> > title.
>
>Just curious. We wrestled with barcoding serials years ago when I was with
>Geac. The problem then was, "what happens when you bind a year's worth?"
>Which of the 12 barcodes is used, or do you take them all off, and put
>another on the bound volume? If the latter, what do you do to solve the
>"bound with" problem? I think this may have been addressed by things like
>the "summary of holdings tag" etc. Or is it still a problem?
>
>cbs
>
>---
>        Chris Brown-Syed <ad6509@wayne.edu> "VOID is not a number".