Hello. I am the product manager for the OCLC eSerials Holdings program, mentioned in Birdie McClennan's original posting. I posted a description of the pilot to the list back in May (seems like only yesterday!). The goal of the pilot is to test an automated process to synchronize your eSerials holdings at the journal title level with WorldCat on a monthly basis. What this means is that OCLC, in partnership with libraries, EBSCO, Ex Libris, Serials Solutions and TDNet is maintaining an updated representation in WorldCat of what eSerial titles pilot libraries subscribe to -- adding and deleting holdings based on data sent to us by our partners on behalf of libraries. During the pilot, we are not setting detailed holdings (LDRs). We are currently indicating holdings at MFHD level one -- journal title level. We expect to expand this to include detailed holdings in version 2. One key focus has been the impact of this pilot on ILL. Pilot libraries have experienced an increase in ILL requests for eSerials. Generally speaking, the reaction to this has been positive. Most pilot libraries have found this increase to be manageable and in fact, beneficial. Pilot library ILL staff are able to see the holdings in WorldCat Resource Sharing, enabling them to direct patrons to internal resources. However, OCLC recognizes the need to control these requests for external requests, and to that end, the production service will offer libraries the option of automatically deflecting requests for eSerials. If that option is selected, WorldCat Resource Sharing will automatically move the request to the next library in the lender string. Version 2 will allow exceptions to the auto-deflect, such as groups, dates, etc. I will post a description of the pilot in a separate message. If you have any questions, please let me know. Bill Carney Product Manager OCLC, Online Computer Library Center, Inc. 6565 Frantz Road Dublin, OH 43017 800.848.5878 carneyb at oclc.org http://www.oclc.org -----Original Message----- From: SERIALST: Serials in Libraries Discussion Forum [mailto:SERIALST@LIST.UVM.EDU] On Behalf Of SERIALST automatic digest system Sent: Monday, January 23, 2006 11:00 PM To: SERIALST@LIST.UVM.EDU Subject: SERIALST Digest - 23 Jan 2006 (#2006-21) There are 2 messages totalling 248 lines in this issue. Topics of the day: 1. Holdings for e-resources in OPAC and in OCLC? (2) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2006 12:08:10 -0500 From: Carmel Yurochko <yurochko@LIBRARY.DUQ.EDU> Subject: Re: 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 ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2006 14:36:12 -0500 From: Tian Zhang <ZHANGT@STJOHNS.EDU> Subject: Re: 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 ------------------------------ End of SERIALST Digest - 23 Jan 2006 (#2006-21) ***********************************************
