Indexing information availability (3 messages) Birdie MacLennan 17 Jan 1997 15:44 UTC
3 messages, 60 lines: (1)--------------------------- Date: Thu, 16 Jan 1997 17:17:46 -0800 From: Carol Morse <MorsCa@WWC.EDU> Subject: Indexing information availability -Reply Our serials dept. used to maintain a card file with indexing & subject info. It was too labor-intensive. Some indexing info. (for print indexes) is on the Marc Record. We have the DataTrek Serials Module, and when I first came to this job about 3 years ago, I started inputing the indexing onto the Subject screen. It was too labor-intensive, also. We are going to switch to an Innovative (integrated) system, so the Marc records will be available to patrons. There is no easy answer to this question. ********************************************************************* Carol Morse Serials Librarian Tel: 509) 527-2684 Walla Walla College Library Fax: 509) 527-2001 College Place, WA 99324 Email: morsca@wwc.edu ********************************************************************* (2)--------------------------- Date: Fri, 17 Jan 1997 08:27:22 EST From: Kamala Narayanan <NARAYANA@QUCDN.QUEENSU.CA> Subject: Re: Indexing information availability If you are citing sources where a journal is indexed in the bibliographic record, you have to to take off the information when it is no longer indexed. Some journal titles are dropped or picked up by other indexes etc. It is for this reason we decided not to add this information on to our database. Mrs. Kamala S.Narayanan Userid:narayana@qucdn.queensu.ca Serials Librarian Phone :(613) 545-6000 ext 4540 Mackintosh Corry Hall Fax :(613) 545-6819 Library, Acquisitions/Serials Queen's University,Kingston. Ontario K7L 5C4 Canada (3)--------------------------- Date: Fri, 17 Jan 1997 10:27:22 EST From: Birdie MacLennan <bmaclenn@zoo.uvm.edu> Subject: Re: Indexing information availability We went through some rather lengthy deliberations with public services staff here (some years back) about whether or not catalogers should monitor and maintain the 510 citation/reference notes for indexes in serial records. We also deliberated over whether or not to display these notes in the public view of our OPAC. We decided not to display the notes. Our reference people felt that this information changed and went out of date too quickly. Given this decision, it also followed that we would not monitor or maintain 510 fields in serial records. Birdie MacLennan Serials Coordinator bmaclenn@uvmvm.uvm.edu University of Vermont bmaclenn@zoo.uvm.edu