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Date: Mon, 5 Oct 1998 14:53:47 -0700
From: Susan Scheiberg <scheiber@USC.EDU>
Subject: killing the Kardex

Hello--

I am *a* new serials librarian, and *the* new serials librarian here at USC
and I am hoping to take advantage of your collective wisdom.  As a bit of
background, we use SIRSI are our ILS, and we have about 16,000 current
subscriptions.  Although we have been up on Sirsi for about two years, for
various reasons we have not fully automated our serials operation, and the
majority of our current subscriptions are received and processed via the
Kardex.  My first task here (and I have a short time frame in which to
accomplish it) is to make the switch from the Kardex to Sirsi.  We will
have basic serials control records loaded by the end of the week (we
commisioned an advanced computer science class to load the records), but
needless to say, they will need a lot of "tweaking" to be correct.

This said, I was hoping that those of you who have been through this
process (and I imagine it is most of you!) would have some advice for me on
how to accomplish this task in as sane a manner as possible.  It's an
overwhelming prospect, and one that my staff are not looking forward to at
all.

Thanking you in advance,

Susan

Susan Scheiberg
Team Leader, Serials Acquisitions (aka Serials Librarian)
Doheny Library G24A
University of Southern California
Los Angeles, CA 90089-0182
Telephone: (213)740-7355
FAX: (213)740-0959
E-mail:  scheiber@usc.edu