Good afternoon Sharon-
Here at University of the Arts London we don't manually catalogue any of the 10,000 ejournals we subscribe to. Nor do we use MARCit.
What I do is take an export of the XML data from SFX, dump it into MARC via MarcEdit and tidy it up, adding punctuation and generally cleaning up the data and getting it as near to MARC21 as I can. Currently I am doing an overlay every couple of months. I keep promising to do it monthly...
As regards the rationale for continuing to include ejournals in our library catalogue, that's an interesting point. There's various opinions on whether there is any point in adding e-journal records to an OPAC... some folk like it, other can't see the point. I don't think it does any harm and the data work only takes a couple of hours work- it's a "cheap and cheerful" way to get the data into the catalogue.
I do hope this is of some interest. Here are some records on our Voyager system (they aren't too pretty, as SFX doesn't give me lots of data to begin with):
http://voyager.arts.ac.uk/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?DB=local&BBID=377274
http://voyager.arts.ac.uk/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?DB=local&BBID=377105
Ray.
Ray Delahunty
Assistant Library Systems Manager
University of the Arts London
http://www.arts.ac.uk
http://voyager.arts.ac.uk
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Subject: [LIS-E-RESOURCES] Ejournal cataloguing
We are looking at our ejournal cataloguing policy. We currently manually
catalogue both individual ejournal subscriptions and ejournals which come as a
part of large packages, but are finding this difficult to sustain. It would be
useful to hear of other libraries' experiences. I am happy to summarise for the
list.
1. Does your institution manually catalogue both its individual ejournal
subscriptions and ejournals which come as a part of large packages?
2. Do you use MARCit or a similar product?
3. Have there been any downsides from using MARCit, for example, in terms of
reduced searchability of your catalogue?
4. If you answered yes to either of questions 1 or 2, what is your rationale for
continuing to include ejournals in your library catalogue, rather than rely on
the A-Z list of a product such as SFX?
5. Has anyone decided to abandon the cataloguing of ejournals (with perhaps
the exception of individual subscriptions) in favour of the A-Z list in SFX (or
similar product)?
Many thanks,
Sharon
Sharon Robinson
Electronic Resources Advisor
Edinburgh Napier University
Craiglockhart Campus
Edinburgh EH14 1DJ
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