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Subject: Marking PAC records to highlight preferred-use run
Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2001 15:56:21 -0600
From: "Harris, Valerie" <Harris@CHICAGOHISTORY.ORG>

Dear Catalogers:

Here at Chicago Historical Society we want to enable our researchers to
retrieve the PAC record for the serial run they really want to use. For
example, we have several newspapers with the title "Chicago Daily News",
but
our users nearly always want to see the "Chicago Daily News" that was
published 1875-1978, not the paper that's published in Rosemont
1979-present. We would love to alert, that is, visually steer, users to
the
most commonly used record. In the old days, we would have marked the
card-catalog card with a stamp or a colored sleeve, to set it apart from
other runs. Is there any PAC equivalent? We use the Horizon ILS,
by-the-by.

Val Harris
Cataloger
Chicago Historical Society
1601 N. Clark St.
Chicago, IL 60614
P:312.799.2038
F:312.799.2338