Subject: Re: How to obtain Chronologies -- Martin House
From: Noreen <nrf@lacrosse.lib.wi.us>
Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2003 09:15:08 -0500

We migrated from Dynix to Horizon in January of 2002.  Most of the
serials information migrated just fine, although there were a few
sticking points.  One of the problems I remember was that Horizon wanted
every quarterly to begin the volume year with the Spring issue and if it
started with Winter instead it would screw up the prediction.  There
were a few other cases where we had to fix the records, but I can't
remember too many specifics.

Unfortunately, I don't know of a way to figure out chronologies other
than by checking the magazines themselves.  We only have three locations
and the two branch libraries don't have many unique titles, so it wasn't
such a problem to get our hands on the magazines.

 > Subject: How to obtain Chronologies
 > From: "House, Martin" <MHouse@plcmc.org>
 > Date: Sun, 22 Jun 2003 16:10:25 -0400
 >
 > Hello Everyone,
 >
 > I'm new to the list (just joined today).  I am currently in charge of
 > our Serials for the library and am trying to get the Dynix Serials
 > Module up and running.  We are supposed to move to Horizon, but with the
 > current budget situation, things are looking gloomy.  I have two
 > questions for you folks.
 >
 > 1. Has anyone migrated from the Dynix Serials Module to that of
 > Horizon's, and was is successful?
 > 2. How in the world do I figure out the chronologies of all of our
serials?
 > - I know that one way would be to look at the physical collection, but
 > we have our collection spread out over 23 branches, and might pose a
 > problem.
 > Is there any way to get this information electronically?  I've tried
 > EBSCO (our vendor), OCLC, Serials Union list. No dice.  I can only find
 > frequencies and retentions.
 >
 > If any of you can help, it would be wonderful.
 >
 > Sincerely,
 >
 > Martin House

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