Target:Automation and magazine checkin

[Debbie Stafford <100332.2074@COMPUSERVE.COM>]

Hope you all are having a good beginning of school.  We started with
students last Monday.

Our new automation program (Library World from Caspr) has a module for
serials.  I have been taking a look at it (in my "free time" <grin>) and
think that it might be useful.  I have a few questions for those of you who
use this kind of program.

 I think that with some time put in now, it may well be easier later to
check in the new issues as they arrive. Do you find this is true?

I understand how to enter the title as a marc record.  How important is it
to put in the volume and issue numbers?  In some cases this information is
impossible to find on the title.  Ditto for ISSN number.

Are there MARC records for magazines that can be copied or downloaded like
we do for books?

What kind of subject headings do you put on titles like Discover, Good
Housekeeping, World & I etc.

Any advice would be appreciated.  I would post a hit.

Debbie Stafford
Gen. H.H. Arnold High School
Wiesbaden Germany
100332.2074@compuserve.com
Now proudly on the web at www.wies-hs-odedodea.edu

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