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Date:         Wed, 22 Oct 1997 13:49:11 +0000
From:         "r.tilly" <R.Tilly@UB.UNIMAAS.NL>
Subject:      Re: Serials checkin automation in very big libraries

LS,

Our library handles 5000 titles through tha automated systen supplied by
the PICA system.  We supplied the system with a prediction code for each
subscription and are claiming about 3800 subscribtions with our supplier
through e-mail. This worked pretty well. If you think that any information
might help you please let me know.

Yours,

Maastricht University
Roel Tilly
Universitylibrary
PO Box 616
6200 MD Maastricht, Netherlands
Email: R.Tilly@ub.unimaas.nl

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Date:         Wed, 22 Oct 1997 08:53:11 -0400
From:         Maggie Rioux <mrioux@CORNELIA.WHOI.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Serials checkin automation in very big libraries

You should also talk to the US National Library of Medicine.

Maggie Rioux
Information Systems Librarian
MBL/WHOI Library
Woods Hole, MA

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]