Re: standing orders and purchasing cycles

["Peggy Sisselman" <psisselman at poklib dot org>]

Hi Doug,

Since we want to suppress order records for our continuations, we use the
receive date for this function, which suppresses the record in our OPAC
and also serves to let us know in which year we would like to order the
book.  So, if I did not want to order the book til 2006, I would put
12-31-2006 in the received date field.  (We know we won't be doing any
receiving on New Year's Eve).  In January, we create a list of all our
standing orders and then we see what we have to do for the coming year.

I also add a note field to say "ANN, cycle 2" (in your example), just like
B&T does, to indicate it is published annually and we will order it every
other year.

Hope that helps.

Peggy

> We recently migrated to Millennium and are getting ready to implement
> acquisitions.  In planning our process for managing standing orders, we
> are curious to know how others deal with situations in which the
> publication frequency of a title is established, but the selector wants
> it purchased on a unique cycle.  For example, Ulrich's is published
> annually, but the selector only wants it every other year.
>
> We know of at least one vendor that supports this preference (Baker &
> Taylor), but how does one represent and manage that variable in
> Millennium?
>
>
> Doug Yancey
> Technical Services Manager
> Salem Public Library
> 585 Liberty St SE
> Salem, OR  97301
> 503.588.6020
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Peggy Sisselman
Technical Services/Acquisitions
Poughkeepsie Public Library District
93 Market St
Poughkeepsie, NY  12601
845.485.3445 x 3337