Pam, and others concerned with this issue:
I'm going to be a hard-nose here and suggest that people with systems that
rely on separate bibliographic records for check-in are in big trouble for
a lot of reasons, and they should NOT be basing their support or
not-support for this change on badly-designed technology. The USMARC
Format for Holdings, which is designed to support the creation of holdings
records and (to some extent) check-in systems, handles these situations
with multiple HOLDINGS records, not multiple BIBLIOGRAPHIC records. And
rightly so, in my opionion. Multiple bibliographic records in support of
complex holdings are an abomination, both for the user and the staff, and
no system I've ever seen handles or displays them intelligently. Sadly,
vendors have not rushed to implement multiple holdings records, though law
librarians, as the keepers of the most complex titles in captivity, should
be busting down their doors to make them do it.
Those folks who are still dealing with systems like Pam describes should
have our sympathy, but not our encouragement to perpetuate the bad design
they contend with on the bibliographic utilities we all share.
Firmly,
Diane
>Has anyone with automated check-in run this by their serials/acquisitions
>people? I'm wondering if some systems would depend on separate
>bibliographical records for the supplements' check-in.
>
>Pam Deemer libped@emoryu1.bitnet or libped@unix.cc.emory.edu
>Emory Univ. Law Library, Atlanta GA 30322-2780
>(404)-7727-0850 FAX: (404)-727-2202
>
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Diane I. Hillmann
Associate Librarian and Head of Technical Services
Cornell Law Library E-mail: dih1@cornell.edu
353 Myron Taylor Hall Voice: (607) 255-5859
Ithaca, New York 14853-4901 Fax: (607) 255-7193
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