CUL Technical Services Manual/Serials Cataloging Training/Holdings

Serials Cataloging: Holdings and the MHLD

Short history of the MHLD at Cornell
- Sources of information for MHLD
  - Formatting holdings data (CUL guidelines)
  - Tagging MHLD (USMARC Concise Format for Holdings Data)
- Holdings standards
The USMARC Format for Holdings
- Structure
  - fixed fields
  - location/call no. (852)
  - Textual holdings (866/7/8)
  - Coded holdings (85X-86X)
  - Multiple holdings records
- Relationship to bibliographic information
- Relationship to circulation information
NOTIS implementation of USMARC Holdings
- Where is the 852 info?
- Display of textual holdings only
- Holdings displays in the OPAC
Formatting serial holdings statements
- Multiple copies / Examples
- Complete/incomplete statements
- Levels of enumeration and chronology
- To compress or not to compress
- Supplements & indexes
- Notes (title level and more specific)
Special formats
- Microforms
- Computer files (non-remote)
Special problems
- Examples

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