Date: Fri, 12 Apr 1996 08:21:22 -0400
From: Tom McFarland <mcfarlan@WINNIE.FIT.EDU>
Subject: Re: Serial Holdings Lists (Deborah Harrell)

We are currently maintaining several holdings lists which we hope
eventually to combine to only two.  The OCLC holdings we maintain as part
of the Central Florida Library Cooperative.  These are printed in both a
union list and a list for the individual libraries.  There is some talk
of emiminating the printed products, but the maintenance will continue.
We also maintain holdings records in Notis, but without SAS reporting we
cannot print off holdings lists, so we keep two seperate PC based lists,
one that has title, academic department, price, etc. (not a holdings
list) which we use for faculty review of subscriptions and the like; the
other is a listing that we use to monitor usage of current issues.  We
are migrating to SIRSI and hope to eliminate at least one of the PC based
lists by using the SIRSI reports.

We have printed copies of the OCLC holdings list liberally spread through
the library and they are pretty tattered by the time the new editions come
out.  We like the OCLC listing because the information is fairly complete
and uniformly presented.  The union list product would be better if the
participating libraries names were spelled out instead of using the three
character OCLC codes for holding libraries.

Tom McFarland
Assistant Director for Special Projects
Evans Library
Florida Institute of Technology
150 W. University Blvd.
Melbourne, FL 32901-6988
Phone:  (407) 768-8000 x7450
Fax:    (407) 724-2559
Email:  mcfarlan@winnie.fit.edu

> Date: Thu, 11 Apr 1996 14:23:10 -0400
> From: Deborah Harrell <dharrell@WESTGA.EDU>
> Subject: Serial holdings lists
>
> We are trying to decide what to do about printed serial holdings lists
> for our *lan* with approximately 25 computers.  Right now, we have a
> listing of titles and holdings in printout (wide) format.  That works,
> but we also have to maintain our holdings on OCLC and can get a
> off-printed product with the same material.  What this means is that to
> maintain both systems, it takes about 16 hours every three months.  Cost
> of the printout is just in personnel because the product is printed in
> our computer center at no charge.  We would have to pay for the duplicate
> copies of the OCLC product.
>
> How do other people handle this...or does anyone else?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Debbie Harrell
> Ingram Library, West Georgia College
> phone: 770-836-6498
> fax: 770-836-6626
>