Shirley Rais
Serials Librarian
Loma Linda University & Medical Center Libraries
Carol Resco wrote:
I have two queries:
1) Has anyone set up a scoped catalog (in our case four sites share a catalog) so that when no results are retrieved in a scoped search, the search is automatically rerun in the entire catalog and results, is any, are displayed?2) After my experience with a shared dynix catalog and the problems with shared serial bibs, I am reluctant to merge serial bibs in a shared catalog system where several sites may have active subscriptions to the same title and where we all share the same serials module. Could those of you with experience in that area, please comment? I want to set up electronic invoicing and claiming and am worried that problems may result with these shared records. We also create items for each periodical piece as these circulate and the item listing in III seems very cumbersome to work with. What I believe will happen is that items from all the different locations will appear in a random order in the listing.
On the other hand, none of these worries could be real! Thanks for your comments.--Carol Resco
Carol S. Resco
Head, OGI School of Science and Engineering Library
Oregon Health & Science University, West Campus
20000 NW Walker Road
Beaverton, OR 97006-8921
(503) 748-1060
(503) 748-1029 FAX
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