Please reply to Jonathan Makepeace, not to SERIALST.  Thanks.  --ed.

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Dear SERIALST-ers,

I'm studying problems and options for serials management in a small,
state government research library that currently uses INMAGIC software
for journal checkin and routing.  A couple of our sibling agency
libraries only use INMAGIC for routing and continue to rely on manual
checkin.

I'm trying to figure out why we and they don't use INMAGIC for tasks like
budgeting and claiming, whether we just haven't gotten around to
learning to use the software more extensively or whether our
people have instinctively decided that it wouldn't be worth the effort,
that the software is too cumbersome.  It may also have to do with the
government environment in which we operate.

I'd like to find counterexamples of public sector librarians who are
using inmagic for serials management tasks beyond holdings and routing.
Are you out there?  Would you let me interview you?

Ps. I'm graduating in August with my MS in LIS from Illinois.  My
coursework and assistantships have concentrated on technical services,
especially cataloging.  Our placement people tell me not to be shy about
mentioning that.  Thank you for your attention.

-Jonathan Makepeace
 makepeac@alexia.lis.uiuc.edu