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Date: Wed, 28 Oct 1998 11:21:40 -0600
From: Patricia Thompson <pthompso@SEWANEE.EDU>
Subject: OCLC holdings for E-periodicals

I posted the following question to several discussion lists last week and
received no responses.  I am reposting it because several people have
contacted me wanting to know if I got any responses because they have the
same question.

What is the correct procedure for attaching our holdings symbols to OCLC
records when cataloging electronic periodicals?  We have decided to use the
"multiple versions on one record" approach outlined by Conser. Should we
modify the record for our own use and attach our symbol to the record for
the print version?   For example, we have a new subscription to the Moscow
Times on the web. There is a record in the worldcat for the Moscow Times in
print format, and we could use this record and modify it for our use by
adding certain fields such as 856.  (We cannot modify this record on OCLC
because we do not have Enhance status.)  Should we attach our holdings to
this record?

Does this just depend on the guidelines of whatever union list you belong to?
What are the rest of you doing?

Pat Thompson

Patricia R. Thompson
Head of Cataloging
Jessie Ball DuPont Library
University of the South
735 University Avenue
Sewanee, TN 37383
(931) 598-1657
(931) 598-1702 (fax)
pthompso@sewanee.edu