Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2003 15:33:54 -0700
From: "Dalene Hawthorne" <daleneh@stanford.edu>
Subject: Current publisher information

Everyone,

For our serials subscriptions, we do not track the current publisher in
any way at this time.

We want to know current publisher because it helps us with problem
solving, collection review (aka cancellation) and management of electronic
versions. While MARC21 does provide for repeating the 260 to track current
publisher, OCLC and RLIN have not made the field repeatable and as a
result AARC2 and CONSER have not been updated to address the matter.

What are you doing in this area?

Do you track current publisher information?
If so, how in-house research or by getting data from vendors?

If you have this data, where do you put it?
*in your ILS
      +bib record
      +serial control record
      +order record
*some other database

Please respond directly to me at daleneh@stanford.edu.  I will summarize
for the list.

Dalene
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Dalene Hawthorne, Serials Librarian
Serials Department
Stanford University Libraries
Stanford, CA  94305-6004; U.S.A.
phone: +1-650-725-1122; fax: +1-650-723-4775
email: daleneh@stanford.edu
http://library.stanford.edu/depts/ts/tsdepts/seracq/sa_depts/serials