2 messages:

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Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2001 08:49:30 -0600
From: "MD_Buddy (Buddy Pennington)" <MD_Buddy@KCLIBRARY.ORG>
Subject: Re: Holdings Statement in OPACS (Fatme Charafeddine)

The new standard for holdings display formats is ANSI/NISO Z.39.71-1999
"Holdings Statements for Bibliographic Items" which covers both serials and
monographs.

You can download it for free from www.techstreet.com.  It will tell you
everything you need to know about how to format enumeration and chronology
for your holdings.

The only deviation we make at our site is using [] for local notes instead
of the standard <>.  That is because the angle brackets do not display in
our Web2 catalog.

Have fun!!

Buddy Pennington
Document Delivery Librarian
Kansas City Public Library
md_buddy@kclibrary.org
816-701-3552

Original message:

Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2001 10:52:32 +0200
From: Fatme Charafeddine <fc01@AUB.EDU.LB>
Subject: holdings statment in OPACS

Just started a project to display backfile holdings details in OPACS.
Any help in the standardization most used for the wording, codes and
structure
of the statement describing :
vol.--from  no to no-- date of the volume.

Any help with this would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks
Fatme

Fatme Charafeddine
Serials Librarian, Jafet Library
American University of Beirut
PO Box 11-0236
Beirut Lebanon

Fax: 961 1 744 703
Tel: 961 1 340 460 ext: 2608

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Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2001 09:59:32 -0500
From: "Ann S. Doyle" <asdoyl2@UKY.EDU>
Subject: Re: Holdings Statement in OPACS (Fatme Charafeddine)

Hi Fatme Charafeddine,

We use these two resources simultaneously for our holdings standards:

ANSI/NISO 39.71(equivalent to ISO 10324) and
MARC21 format for holdings.

Free access to concise MARC21 format for communicating holdings:

http://www.loc.gov/marc/holdings/echdhome.html

Free .pdf copy of ANSI/NISO holdings standards (must have .pdf reader):

http://www.niso.org/standards/resources/Z39-71.pdf

Hope this helps...

Ann

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Ann S. Doyle
Serials Acquisitions Librarian
Co-Team-Leader, Young Library Serials
William T. Young Library
University of Kentucky Libraries
500 S. Limestone St.
Lexington  KY  40506-0456
v.859.257.0500.x2132
f.859.257.0508
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