Re: Use create lists to find current serials titles?

[Claudia Chester <cchester at jfku dot edu>]

Just a bit of late additional advice:

After a while we discovered it's a good idea to suppress but not delete 
weeded and/or 'unsubscribed' titles and give these a different Scode (in 
addition to dead and current) so we don't get caught in a loop of 
repeatedly considering subscribing to a journal we already decided to weed 
or cancel. Plus it's just generally helpful to know the history of things. 
We use 'u' for 'unsubscribed' 'cause we already used 'c(ancel)' for 'current.'

HTH

P.S. I don't think anyone really answered your original question - which I 
believe was about identifying titles to add checkin cards to as part of 
your initial conversion. I'm not familiar with MARC21 Holdings (tho we'll 
be converting to them soon), but it seems to me that holdings wouldn't 
necessarily indicate currency, only what NLM thinks they have. Although 
there are elements of the MARC record that indicate currency, it's my 
experience that the records aren't maintained well enough to count on that 
info being up to date. I hope someone will correct me if I'm wrong.

Anyway, we simply slogged alphabetically through our Cardex, coding and 
creating checkin cards and records for each title. Good luck!



At 05:45 AM 7/7/05 -0700, you wrote:
> Kristyn,
>
> Set up one of your Scodes for either an alive or dead status.  This will 
> make short work of
> collapsing checkin boxes later when you don't need them or when you need 
> to run a report.  Our
> periodicals reside permanently in two create list files (alive and dead) 
> because we use them
> frequently for a myriad of reporting and control purposes.
>
>
>
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