We, too, batch load MARC records from Serials Solutions monthly. We maintain LDRs for our print holdings. For the very reasons Tiang describes below, we do not add holdings or our symbol to OCLC for our electronic journals. It's also time-consuming enough to track titles in Serials Solutions and SFX when they change vendors (requires manual changes when we don't subscribe to the entire collection/package) or we cancel our print and lose access to the "free" internet access that was included with our print subscription (also requires manual changes--deletion of title or changes to holdings). Lynn K. Cote Serials Cataloger/Serials Receipt Coordinator Collections Services, U-2005 University of Connecticut Homer Babbidge Library 369 Fairfield Rd. Storrs, CT 06269-2005 ph. (860)486-6495 fax (860)486-6493 -----Original Message----- From: SERIALST: Serials in Libraries Discussion Forum [mailto:SERIALST@LIST.UVM.EDU] On Behalf Of Tian Zhang Sent: Monday, January 23, 2006 2:36 PM To: SERIALST@LIST.UVM.EDU Subject: Re: [SERIALST] Holdings for e-resources in OPAC and in OCLC? Our library just finished the batch loads of MARC records to Our OPAC of our electronic resources through MARC record services offered by Serials Solutions. But we will not add the institution's holding symbol to OCLC records. Because our library has no control of the accessibility of some of the titles which are available to our library from the electronic resources (as Ebscohost, ProQuest, etc.) We subscribe the databases, not the individual titles. And the publishers who have agreement with those databases (or venders) can withdraw their titles from the databases at their will. We just do not want to take the trouble to add and then delete our LDRs from OCLC records for those titles. As for our individually subscribed titles (both online and print version), we have all our LDRs in OCLC records and they are updated all the time. (For example, we subscribe 15 individual journals form Emerald and then we subscribe the Emerald Full text Database which consists of more than 200 titles. In our OCLC records, we only put LDRs for those 15 titles, not the other more than 200 titles.) Even though I believe that we can ILL all those 200 titles with full texts online, I just do not feel comfortable to put the LDR in OCLC records in case one of the titles dropped without my knowledge. Tian X. Zhang Serials Librarian St. John's University Library 8000 Utopia Parkway Queens, NY 11439 -----Original Message----- From: SERIALST: Serials in Libraries Discussion Forum [mailto:SERIALST@LIST.UVM.EDU] On Behalf Of Carmel Yurochko Sent: Monday, January 23, 2006 12:08 PM To: SERIALST@LIST.UVM.EDU Subject: Re: [SERIALST] Holdings for e-resources in OPAC and in OCLC? Hello, The Gumberg Library at Duquesne University does a monthly batch download of Marc records we get from ExLibris. I do this more frequently if warranted. I too am interested in the answer to the question about OCLC holdings for electronic journals. I just began adding our symbol to our Elsevier subscription titles, and only to Elsevier subs for now. At this time, I am not adding holdings. We decided to start slowly to see how it affects our ILL department. Thanks, Carmel Yurochko Serials/E.R. Librarian Duquesne University / Gumberg Library 600 Forbes Avenue / Pittsburgh, PA 15282 412.396-5233 / fax 412.396-5639 yurochko@library.duq.edu -----Original Message----- From: SERIALST: Serials in Libraries Discussion Forum [mailto:SERIALST@LIST.UVM.EDU] On Behalf Of Cheryl Conway Sent: Monday, January 23, 2006 11:41 AM To: SERIALST@LIST.UVM.EDU Subject: Re: [SERIALST] Holdings for e-resources in OPAC and in OCLC? I am also interested. Thank you, Cheryl Conway At 04:24 PM 1/20/2006, you wrote: >Please respond to the list, I am interested too. > >Helen > >Helen Heinrich >Cataloging Coordinator >California State University, Northridge >18111 Nordhoff Street, >Northridge, CA, 91330-8328 >Tel.: (818) 677-7830 >Fax: (818) 677-4928 >helen.heinrich@csun.edu > >-----Original Message----- >From: SERIALST: Serials in Libraries Discussion Forum >[mailto:SERIALST@LIST.UVM.EDU] On Behalf Of Birdie MacLennan >Sent: Friday, January 20, 2006 12:27 PM >To: SERIALST@LIST.UVM.EDU >Subject: [SERIALST] Holdings for e-resources in OPAC and in OCLC? > >Hello, > >I'm writing to inquire if there are any academic libraries using >monthly (or more frequent) automated batch loads of MARC records to >describe in their OPAC their electronic resources (i.e., through MARC >record services offered by EBSCO, SerialsSolutions, ExLibris or other) >who are also adding (and/or deleting) their institution's holding >symbol to OCLC records, with each monthly batch load of MARC records >... primarily for ILL purposes? > >Likewise, are there libraries who are doing monthly MARC record batch >loads who are not worrying about adding their holdings to OCLC records >and just keeping holdings data in their OPAC? > >I am aware that OCLC was conducting a pilot project with various >libraries and vendors. Is the pilot over? Any lessons learned? > >Feel free to respond to SERIALST or to me directly. If interest >warrants, I'll be happy to summarize for the list. > >Thanks in advance. > > -- Birdie > Birdie MacLennan > Bailey/Howe Library E-mail: Birdie.MacLennan@uvm.edu > University of Vermont Phone: 802-656-2016 > Burlington, VT 05405, USA Fax: 802-656-4038 > Library Assoc. Prof. ; Coordinator, Serials & Cataloging, etc. .... Cheryl Cheryl L. Conway Head of Cataloging Acquisitions Dept. Room 214-C University of Arkansas Libraries 365 N. McIlroy Ave. Fayetteville, Arkansas 72701-4002 phone: 479-575-4812 fax: 479-575-4817
