>From our senior cataloger who is responsible for claims:

"We generally have 300+ claims a month to FTP to Ebsco. Right now I spend at least a day going through them. However, I want to talk to Dynix about having Horizon automatically predicting the next claim after so many days, rather than clicking them one by one myself. If we can do that, all I'd have to do is generate the report.

We also have the claims over three report, which takes about half a day to go through and then another half a day to make changes to the catalog according to Audrey's responses. I'd say we receive most of our claims, probably 90%. However, I don't have any stats on this.

If we didn't claim, then we'd never get any missing issues. I think that would cause some complaint from our users. With the move towards digitalization, our print numbers will start declining, and so the time spent on claiming will also decrease. I see no advantage to NOT claiming."

We claim all missing journals since we pay for them.  If we cannot get a journal that has been claimed, the publisher extends our subscription period.

Hope you find this information helpful.

Barbara McDougald
Phone: 571-272-3499
Fax:     571-273-0049

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From: SERIALST: Serials in Libraries Discussion Forum [mailto:SERIALST@LIST.UVM.EDU]On Behalf Of van Sickle, Jennifer
Sent: Monday, March 06, 2006 10:11 AM
To: SERIALST@LIST.UVM.EDU
Subject: Re: [SERIALST] FW: core claiming and/or serial special lists

We have not generated such a list, but we are about to stop checking in
titles with limited retention as well as most titles replaced in MF (if
they are also available online).  We hope this will cut down on
unnecessary claim generation.

Would you please summarize for the list?  Thanks.

Jennifer van Sickle MLS
Serials Librarian/Sciences Coordinator
Trinity College Library
300 Summit St.
Hartford, CT USA 06106

Phone: 860-297-2250
Fax: 860-297-2251

jennifer.vansickle@trincoll.edu

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From: SERIALST: Serials in Libraries Discussion Forum
[mailto:SERIALST@LIST.UVM.EDU] On Behalf Of Chisman, Janet
Sent: Thursday, March 02, 2006 2:12 PM
To: SERIALST@LIST.UVM.EDU
Subject: [SERIALST] FW: core claiming and/or serial special lists

I am interested in hearing from libraries that have a list of core
titles that they claim and/or serial special.  What criteria did you use
in generating these lists?  Who participated in the decision?  How much
time do you think (know) it is saving - any figures on number of
unfilled claims/serial specials before using the lists and after?  How
much FTE you are saving?  Any information in this area would be
appreciated.

A quick literature search did not yield much.

Thank you.

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Janet Chisman
Head, Serials and Electronic Resources
Washington State University Libraries
Pullman, WA 99164-5610
Voice - 509.335.4941
Fax - 509.335.6721