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Date: Mon, 9 Sep 1996 12:17:09 EDT
From: "Diane Lewis" <DILEWIS@IGSRGLIB01.ER.USGS.GOV>
Organization:  U.S. Geological Survey
Subject: Re: Closing shelflist

Mr. Henderson's reply tickled my funnybone and  I've worked in serial
records for 10 years, in one capacity or another.   We're not curing
cancer here, let's lighten up.  The question whether the online
serial record incorporates all the data on the Kardex before you
discard the latter is a valid one.

Diane M. Lewis
U.S. Geological Survey Library
dilewis@usgs.gov
(703)648-4399
"If you want peace, work for justice."--Pope Paul VI.

Louise Diodato <ldiodato@ACS.STRITCH.EDU> wrote:

> Since you are a publisher and not working in a library with this
> question, I find your answer sarcastic and uninformative.
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> On Mon, 9 Sep 1996, Albert Henderson wrote:
>
> > Rose Welton rosew@muskox.alaska.edu asked
> >
> > [snip]
> >
> > >  What about old, long-running serials--do
> > > you double-check the shelf to make sure of holdings before pitching
> > > cards?
> >
> > What's the hurry? Are the cards toxic? What will you do when the computer
> > scrambles your data and you find the backup tapes have oxidized?
> >
> > Albert Henderson, Editor, PUBLISHING RESEARCH QUARTERLY
> > 70244.1532@compuserve.com

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Date: Mon, 9 Sep 1996 11:31:10 -0600
From: "Martha Coleman" <mcoleman@systema.westark.edu>
Organization: Westark Community College
Subject: Re: Closing shelflist

I considered discarding our old checkin cards, but I'm glad that I
did not.  Our serials checkin module has been active for just over a
year and there have been several occasions where I wondered "did we
EVER have this volume (or issue) or is this a gap?"   Sometimes we find input
errors and only the original holding cards can solve the problem.  We
are also thinking of migrating from VTLS to another system in the
next couple of years and I may want the cards to use in that project.

Martha Coleman   mcoleman@systema.westark.edu
Boreham Library...Westark Community College...Fort Smith, AR
501-788-7208     Fax 501-788-7209