RE: new vendor codes

["Willcox, Suzanne (SLSA)" <Willcox.Suzanne@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Melanie,

 

To answer your questions...

 

- If a vendor has changed and the Serial title/order is current, we create a new vendor code inserting a note into the new vendor file listing that particular company's previous incarnations. We then insert the new code into the orders/checkins.

- We do not change the vendor code for cancelled orders/checkins as the order/issues arrived under the company name as it was then. When these orders/checkins are archived (12mths - checkins, 2yrs - orders) we then delete the obsolete vendor code.

 

Hope this helps.

 

Best wishes,

 

Suzanne Willcox
Acquisitions Coordinator
State Library of South Australia
GPO Box 419
ADELAIDE SA 5001 AUSTRALIA

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-----Original Message-----
From: Melanie Cornell [mailto:MCornell@xxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Friday, 28 June 2002 4:39 AM
To: "\"\"<\"<
Subject: new vendor codes

In the last few years many publishers have changed their names (i.e. Matthew Bender to Lexis/Nexis Matthew Bender), or merged with/ been bought by other publishers.  We'd like to hear how other libraries handle these changes in their vendor codes.

 

Do you use the old vendor code and simply remember that, for example, Proquest used to be Bell & Howell?

 

Do you add a new vendor and change all records assigned to that vendor?  If so, do you create a new order record for each or do you simply change the vendor code on the record?  How do you track the change in vendor?

 

We'd like to hear from anyone who has dealt with this problem.  Thanks very much.

 

 

Melanie Cornell
Automation Librarian
Franklin Pierce Law Center Library
2 White Street
Concord, NH  03301

(603) 228-1541, ext. 1135 (voice)
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