We already wrote a reaction on the OPEN-ILS-GENERAL but we think it could be appropriate to do it here as well.
As it is the first time that we have a voice on this list I'll tell you who we are and what we have with serials : The IISH ( International Institute of Social History in Amsterdam) has two streams of incoming periodicals : 1. Subscriptions. We have about 1500 subscriptions in our present Serial Module (Advance ILS and migrating to Evergreen later this year), in which we control the predictions, receiving, claiming and so on. We would like to continue this. 2. Periodicals we receive in bulk parts. They arrive at the Institute with a collection of books, archive, photos etc. We have around 100.000 serial records in the database These periodicals do not have to be linked with all the serial management data, they only need a 852 (call number) and a 866 (textual holding). First of all I would like to say that I totally agree with your statement to maintain full compatibility with the MFHD standard without the overhead of maintaining a full MFHD record. We are now in the migration fase and we surely want to keep alle the MFHD record details in MARC equally well, so that when exporting we have these very same details available. Furthermore you mentioned that the only 'serial' table currently in production use is serial.record_entry and that you would like to hang-on to it and phase in a new system on your own terms. That is what we want to do as well, as we are now testing the migration against Evergreen 1.6.0.3 and we would like to do the real migration in as similar release. We would like to switch to a new serial enhancement release afterwards. Marjolein Kremer IISG Books and Serials Acquisitions
