RE: Scoping Periodicals

["Stephen McLaughlin" <sMcLaughlin at sfpl dot org>]

This is an issue that has inspired a great deal of interest among the
staff of our periodicals department, so I'm very interested in seeing
what other people have done. It looks to me like the Tufts approach
would haul in a lot of titles that are not journals, but are just plain
old serials. Scoping by location seems a better bet, as long as your
journals are in distinct locations (easy enough to arrange).

The other approach I have seen is to create MARC 222 fields that
duplicate the 245 fields, and index those as a separate and distinct
"journal title" field. This seems to be what the University of Puget
Sound has done (http://simon.ups.edu/screens/mainmenu.html, where you
can select "Journal Title" under the "Search by:" pull-down box). But
this notion (which I also heard mentioned at the IUG a couple of weeks
ago) did not please our serials cataloger -- I gather that this is not
quite standard MARC practice
(http://www.loc.gov/marc/bibliographic/ecbdtils.html#mrcb222). There is
also the disadvantage that you won't be indexing the variant titles
(like the 246 fields) as "journal titles," so if you search for _Organic
Gardening_ as _OG_, you may not get it.

Right now, we use the Innovative bibliographic material type to identify
periodicals (as distinct from the more generic MARC serials code), and
have it set up as a search limiter -- but in our catalog that means you
either have to do a basic search and then apply the limit, or go to
advanced search right off the bat. Our periodicals department staff want
something right on the first catalog search page for periodicals
searching, but so far we haven't figured out how what the best way for
us to do this is. So if there are any methods I have overlooked, please
drop me a line!

Thanks,

Steve McLaughlin
San Francisco Public Library

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Subject: Re: Scoping Periodicals

As requested, here are the sites that responded:

1.    http://library.tufts.edu (based on the marc record having a value
of
"s" for the bib level)

2.    http://qcat.quinnipiac.edu    (under the "Limit by Locations"
button)

3.    http://libus.csd.mu.edu (2 journal scopes (a) electronic access;
(b)
all journals)

4.    http://wsuo12.wright.edu    (based on a loc/item location
combination)

5.    http://clicnet.clic.edu