Re: Unsolicited materials (2 messages) Birdie MacLennan 09 Dec 1997 20:47 UTC
2 messages, 66 lines: (1)--------------------- Date: Tue, 9 Dec 1997 15:30:04 EDT From: Birdie MacLennan <bmaclenn@zoo.uvm.edu> Subject: Re: Unsolicited materials Editor's. note: In reply to Ms. Lewis, below, in one of the combined/ digested messages posted yesterday on this topic, a contributor did in fact write (and I cut & paste), "We use III and so far there is no provision for anything other than minimal messages." The original full text of this digested message, which had just been posted as the previous message, was removed from the subsequent digest (a moderated decision) in which Ms. Lewis' message appeared. I apologize for any confusion, however, you can always find references to original text from the archives, which are updated with each posted message and maintained at: http://list.uvm.edu/archives/serialst.html Peace. Birdie MacLennan SERIALST Listowner/Moderator bmaclenn@zoo.uvm.edu University of Vermont bmaclenn@uvmvm.uvm.edu (2)------------------------- Date: Tue, 9 Dec 1997 15:05:04 EDT From: "Diane Lewis" <DILEWIS@IGSRGLIB01.ER.USGS.GOV> Organization: U.S. Geological Survey Subject: Re: Unsolicited materials Correct me if I'm mistaken here, but a least one respondent DID say that III only allows BRIEF notes for serials. I myself was merely describing the excellent record shielding and serials notation capabilities of HORIZON. One always hears that III is the ultimate system for serials. And since when are we into rating each other's comments to the List? Diane M. Lewis Marilee Rouillard <mrouilla@KEENE.EDU> wrote: I don't know how anyone got the impression that III can't deal with unsolicited materials. There have been several workable solutions presented, including mine in the first set of replies. I make a dummy brief record(which I suppress)and enter the titles as Alternate titles. It is very easy, and the command 'Toss!' appears as soon as the title is typed. Some of the replies(such as Helen's from Australia)were very well thought out solutions. >Subject: Re: Unsolicited materials > >Well, will wonders never cease! A reason to be happy our library >system did not choose III. Our serials check-in staff would revolt >if they had to consult a paper or card file in addition to the Kardex >and the database (still adding Kardex records) to determine what >instructions there are for a particular title. And, truly, it does >startle me when an automated system forces you to resort to >paper files for something as important as notes. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Marilee H. Rouillard, Supervisor Periodicals Department, Mason Library Keene State College, Keene, NH 03435-3201 mrouilla@keene.edu (603)358-2756