At 03:27 PM 4/1/2004, you wrote:
>This is a question for those using the Voyager system.
>This is what we are planning to do ...

If I've made any blunders below, someone will let me know, I'm sure.

>1. Serial issue arrives at check-in and a change of title is noticed
(if you're lucky)
>2. They pass it to cataloguing staff ...
>3. If new, then cataloguing staff would close our holdings ...
>4. When it comes back to serials they close the component pattern and
>'cancel' the line item

If you simply close the component pattern, it will continue to show up in
check-in, even though no issues will be predicted.  This could prove to be
a nuisance.  To avoid this, you could delete the component (and lose data)
or rename the component something that is unlikely to get searched in
check-in (like "zzjournal of former title").

>5. Serials adds a new line on the same PO and links it to the new
>bib. record, then creates a new component and selects a pattern

You don't ever plan to use Voyager to make or record payment information?
If you do, you must approve the PO, and once it's approved, you cannot add
a new line item.  You can only add line items while the PO has the pending
status.

We create a new PO but give it the same PO number as the previous one, with
a suffix of "a" (or "b" or "c", if there have been several title changes).

Susan Wishnetsky
Serials and Electronic Collections Librarian
Galter Health Sciences Library
The Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University
303 East Chicago Avenue
Chicago, Illinois 60611-3008

(312) 503-9351
FAX (312) 503-1204
pasiphae@northwestern.edu