Please respond to the author, not to SERIALST. Thank you. -Marcia

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Date: Tue, 24 Aug 1993 09:41:23 -0400
From: Patricia A Hatch <pah@WORLD.STD.COM>
Subject: EBSCO Recon

Please respond directly to the author at pah@world.std.com, not to the
list--I will summarize.

        Our library is about to begin automation, and we are beginning
with a Recon project this year.  Our Periodical collections have never
been cataloged, but we intend to catalog them for automation.  We receive
most of our periodicals from EBSCO, and their representative has given me
information about a *free* service that they offer that will convert your
periodical subscriptions with them in to MARC-S and CONSER records.  Has
anyone ever used this service?  Are there any costs involved?  Did you
find their 96% hit rate claimed to be accurate?  Is there anything a
library should look out for when agreeing to this?  Any information that
people can provide about this would be greatly appreciated, and I will
summarize the findings for the list.

Thank you in advance,

Patricia Hatch
Serials Librarian
Cardinal Cushing Library
Emmanuel College, Boston, MA
pah@world.std.com