Christine--
  We're not on SIRSI, but have the MARC holdings format on DRA with
identical tags.  I posed a similar question last year.  Replies I got
seemed to suggest the following:  If you have the staff to do it,
convert volume by volume (and barcode, if feasible).  If you must
summarize some materials, that is, enter ranges of volumes instead of
single volumes--or open holdings--most libraries would choose to
summarize periodical holdings and detail serial and standing order
holdings (those most likely to be circulated).  It wouldn't be
worthwhile to include, retrospectively, issue detail from complete
bound volumes.  But if you already have the data available, include it
at least for volumes bound incomplete--each volume in a line, but
detailing issues within that line, e.g., v. 1, no. 5,8-9--if that's
possible on your system. Hope this helps.

Frieda Rosenberg
Serials Cataloger
UNC-Chapel Hill
<friedat@EMAIL.UNC.EDU>

On Tue, 23 Apr 1996, Christine A. Malone wrote:

>     Hello--
>     [deletions]
>     grateful.  My question is this:  How should we enter holdings for bound
>     volumes?  Should we enter individual issues within the bound volume as
>     holdings, or enter each bound volume itself as a holding?  Some of our
>     titles go back 50+ years and it would require a lot of person-power
>     (which we don't have) to enter each issue for such titles.
>
>     ...[deletions]
>     Thank you in advance
>
>     --
>     Christine A. Malone
>     Oliver Wendell Holmes Library
>     Phillips Academy
>     Andover, Massachusetts 01810
>     malonca@IDEA.UML.EDU
>