[Evergreen-catalogers] Cataloging magazines for branch libraries

[Carolyn Phillips]

For those who don't know, we are a large urban library with a Main 
branch where acquisitions, cataloging and processing takes place, and 7 
other branch libraries within the city limits.

For years, we have had magazines mailed directly to the branches, and 
they barcode the issues and put them out for circulation.  We at Main 
did a large project a number of years ago to add MFHDs to our Evergreen 
catalog for our serials.  However, since we began using Bibliocore, 
these don't display as they used to -- right now, they are crammed into 
the call number field -- and it is my understanding that when we upgrade 
to EG 3.7 in November, the MFHDs won't be seen at all.

Branch staff are telling us they have these issues:*

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        They are unable to search the catalog for which copies of
        magazines are on the shelf at a location.

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        They are unable to search the catalog for which titles are held
        at a location (unless doing a title search).

They would like us to change how we catalog and process magazines for 
circulation.

Could you please share how your library handles circulating physical 
magazines?

You can email me directly and I can summarize for the list.

Thank you,

Carolyn

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