Perhaps this is a very naive suggestion, but have you asked the Library of
Congress?

SUSAN STURGEON
SERIALS DEPARTMENT
SALEM STATE COLLEGE LIBRARY
352 LAFAYETTE ST.
SALEM MA 01970
NEW E-mail address:susan.sturgeon@salem.mass.edu

On Tue, 21 Oct 1997 gca.periodiques@BNF.FR wrote:

> The French National library is going to have a new information system,
> especially created for us. We are receiving about 50 000 serials titles by
> legal deposit, and 9000 titles by acquisitions. The library's Automation
> department proposes us to ask for a non predictive system, which means that
> the checkin system will not be able to predict the issues to be received,
> and that we are going to enter manually the description of each issue
> received or missing - it seems to me not a real progress. They say that
> there is no library in the world with so many titles to checkin who could
> get equipped with a predictive checkin system, because it would take too
> much time to do the setup for all the titles. My question is : is there
> somebody who could give me an example of a very big library with an
> equivalent amount of serials titles who made the experience of getting
> automated with a predictive checkin system ?
>
> [From: gca.periodiques@BNF.FR]
>