Craig Fairley <fairley@INFORAMP.NET> wrote:
>I was involved with the conversion of a 6000 title collection
>to an ILS.  We were converting from a PC-based system which was
>able to provide output of pattern infoemation.  We had our ILS
>vendor program a loader for this data.  I must say that it was
>not a success.  Because of inconsitencies in how the  MARC
>holdings format was interpreted by the two systems, we ended up
>having to edit the pattern of every record anyway.  We figure
>it would have been faster to input the pattern info manually.
>You may be in a better situation if you can find another SIRSI
>site to share with....

We are working with ILS and we converted about 1700 title and first we
tried to convert via MARC, but we only lose time and effort.  It is better
to enter the pattern info manually.

MTRO. ALBERTO J. GARCIA
JEFE DE PROCESOS TECNICOS
BIBLIOTECA UDLAP [University de las Americas Puebla]
alberto@udlapvms.pue.udlap.mx (alberto)