We don’t do anything. My take on this is that the valuable “core” academic journals tend to fall into the resolved category and the bulk of the stuff in the unresolved category are serials that we don’t care all that much about. So why spend the time trying to get them into WorldCat? We have lots of other things to worry about.

 

I could be very wrong about this! To be honest, we haven’t looked at it that closely. Our attitude is that prior to Serials Solutions MARC records, less than 10% of our online serials were in the online catalog, let alone WorldCat. Now we have nearly 100% in our local catalog and roughly half in WorldCat with vastly reduced cataloging staff time involved. So we are taking the glass half full approach.

 

Buddy Pennington

Director of Collections and Access Management

University of Missouri - Kansas City

304 Miller Nichols Library

800 East 51st Street

Kansas City, MO  64110

816-235-1548

816-333-5584 (fax)

 

UMKC Libraries: Discovery. Knowledge. Empowerment.

 

From: SERIALST: Serials in Libraries Discussion Forum [mailto:SERIALST@list.uvm.edu] On Behalf Of Janet Lee-Smeltzer
Sent: Thursday, November 17, 2011 1:04 PM
To: SERIALST@LIST.UVM.EDU
Subject: [SERIALST] OCLC eSerials Holdings

 

Apologies for cross-posting.

 

We load records from Serials Solutions for our electronic journals and update holdings in WorldCat using the eSerials Holdings service offered by OCLC.  I have recently gotten confirmation from OCLC support that a 50% match rate is the best we can expect (for a library of our size).  The November eSerials Holdings Service Summary Report  indicates that out of 47,239 of records processed, 24,025 were unresolved, i.e., no WorldCat records were matched for these titles to set our holdings.   I am interested in hearing from those, who use the same two services, if you are experiencing the same low matching rate and how you handle the unresolved records.  Manually review the unresolved records and update holdings?  Not worry about it and do nothing?

 

Thank you.

 

 

Janet Lee-Smeltzer
Head, Cataloging and Metadata Services
The University of Alabama Libraries
Box 870266
Tuscaloosa, AL 35487-0266
Phone: 205-348-6022
Fax: 205-348-6358
janet_leesmeltzer@yahoo.com