Subject:  Re: Divine/Ebsco messing up my Innopac -- Marika Zemke
From:  Barbara Eastland - Library <eastland@hal.muhlberg.edu>
Date:  Tue, 8 Apr 2003 11:25:18 -0400 (EDT)

We, too, have struggled with this issue, and I and my colleagues have
been unable to design a method that does not include changing
*something* in either the checkin record or the checkin card.  It
definitely is a great deal of work, but the alternative is even messier,
I think.

What we decided upon was to:
1. take the Faxon list of unpaid/non-renewed titles;
2. enter an arbitrary "n" in the currency field of the checkin record;
3. create a list from that designated item;
4. and then change the status in the checkin card to "unavailable" for
the subscription period for each title on the list.

As publishers decided to grace the subs for the year, those titles were
eliminated from the list and check-in cards reverted to normal. I think
it saved much needless effort in the claiming process.

Fortunately, I have excellent student assistants who performed much of
the entry work.

Barb

Barbara B. Eastland              VOICE: 484-664-3561
Serials Manager                    FAX: 484-664-3511
Trexler Library                         eastland@hal.muhlberg.edu
Muhlenberg College
2400 Chew St.
Allentown  PA  18104

 > Subject:  Divine/Ebsco messing up my Innopac
 > From:  "Marika Zemke" <tmzemke@hotmail.com>
 > Date:  Mon, 07 Apr 2003 21:42:01 -0400
 >
 >
 > A question from snowy,icy, rainy, slushy Michigan. (Yes, we have had all
 > the above in just 1 weekend) I just had a thought today as I was driving
 > home from work. Many of the serials that my library subscribes to have
 > lapsed due to the Divine debacle. Ebsco is picking them up, but not
 > until May or June. What do you all think is the easiest way to make sure
 > that my system won't mark them as late? If they stay in the system as
 > is, then they will all come up as late and I will have hundreds of
 > serials to wade through. I thought about going in and changing all the
 > dates, but whew, that would be a lot of changing! I'm fairly new to
 > Serials, less than 3 months and my head is spinning. Believe me, ANY
 > words of wisdom can only improve my job performance!
 > Thanks in advance.
 >
 > Marika Zemke
 > Adult Services Librarian
 > West Bloomfield Township Public Library
 > West Bloomfield, MI 48323
 > zemkemar@wblib.org
 > 248-232-2303
 >
 >
 > "I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library."
 > Jorge Luis Borges
 >