Greetings,

Like everyone else, we are exploring faster and more efficient ways to
keep up with e-journal titles, current URLs, and holdings data.  We
subscribe to Serials Solutions' A to Z list and are using this to generate
a web list of all our titles.  We've been cataloging individual titles in
a single record approach in our OPAC.  The A-Z list picks up on these, as
well as titles we have in full-text databases.  We've not been able to
keep up with full-text database titles and/or to add them as individual
bib records in our catalog.

It has been suggested that we investigate adding "brief" e-journal records
to our catalog to provide links to e-journals.  I'm not sure exactly what
this means, but have been asked to explore the possibility.  So ... I'm
wondering, is anyone else adding any kind of brief records to their
catalog to generate access to e-journals?  If so, how are you creating the
records and holdings data?  Are you adding the records manually
(in-house)?  Using vendor or publisher supplied MARC records?  Using
OpenURL or Link Resolver services?

Is anyone still using a single record approach (print, microform,
electronic on one record) and finding a way to incorporate automated
maintenance for URLs and multiple holdings into a single bibliographic
record approach?

Probably more questions here, than answers.  Any information, discussion,
suggestions, etc.  would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance,

        Birdie MacLennan
        Library Associate Professor
        Coordinator, Serials & Cataloging
        Bailey/Howe Library
        University of Vermont
        birdie.maclennan@uvm.edu