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Re: MeSH headings and Serials Solutions records Barbara Glackin 01 Mar 2005 20:02 UTC

Does your import protocol allow you to "protect" certain Marc tags when
adding the Serials Solutions records? In this instance, the import is
more like a merge than a replace, but enters all the new information
while retaining the "protected" tags. Good luck.--Barbara

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Barbara C. Glackin
Cataloging Dept.
Albertsons Library
Boise State University
1910 University Drive
Boise, ID  83725-1430
208-426-5902
barbaraglackin@boisestate.edu

>>> jonesw@POST.QUEENSU.CA 3/1/2005 11:01:03 AM >>>
We just recently started subscribing to the Serials Solutions MARC
records service for our ejournals. It has generally been excellent, but
one thing we hadn't considered was that there are many CONSER records
(the go-to source of records for Serials Solutions and other similar
vendors) which lack MeSH headings, and so the result is either that we
accept the fact that a SerSols record without MeSH headings will
overwrite our current record which has them, or that we make a local
change to the SerSols record once we have it -- but that means that
future loads from SerSols for that record will not automatically
overwrite it because the local changes are protected.

I wonder if other libraries have run into the same problem, and how you
might have resolved it?

Many thanks,

Wayne Jones

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Wayne Jones
Head, Central Technical Services
Queen's University Library
Mackintosh-Corry Hall, Room B100A
Kingston, ON
K7L 5C4
tel: (613) 533-2802
fax: (613) 533-6819
email: jonesw@post.queensu.ca