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]