INTRODUCTION
Introduction


This tutorial introduces the management of serials using the Millennium Serials module and the Serials Check-in mode.

Millennium Serials can maintain your library's holdings for all types of serials, including periodicals, journals, newspapers, government documents, and monographic series. Media other than paper (e.g., microfilm, electronic) and all frequencies (regular, normalized irregular, and irregular) can be supported.



A serials holdings record is attached to a bibliographic record. There can be more than one holdings record (e.g. for paper, online, and microform versions of the same serial title, for different locations, or different Serials Units).

The bibliographic record must be in your database before you can begin. Bibliographic records may already exist, be imported from a Bibliographic Utility (i.e. OCLC) and/or Z39.50, provided by your serials vendor, or manually keyed in.

NOTE: The earlier term for the 'Holdings Record' was the 'Checkin Record'. The Innovative Guide & Reference and other documentation may have references to both terms.

The Holdings record consists of 6 tabs: Summary, Record, Card, Holdings, Routing, and Bib-level Holds.

The Summary tab displays a summary of all holdings records attached to a specific bibliographic record.

The Bib-level holds tab allows you to place and display holds on a title.

The tutorial will concentrate on the remaining 4 tabs:
  1. Record tab
  2. Card tab
  3. Holdings tab
  4. Routing tab


  1. The Record tab contains the Holdings record fixed-length fields display in the top portion and the variable-length fields display in the bottom portion.



  2. The Card tab displays the Checkin card associated with the currently selected Holdings record. The tab heading shows the record number of the Holdings record.



  3. The Holdings tab contains the holdings information for the Holdings record that is currently selected. The tab heading shows the record number of the selected record



    Below the toolbar is the public view of the holdings statement. Millennium Serials shows you exactly how the holdings data will display to the public in Web OPAC. The OPAC View contains three tabs - Issues, Supplements, and Indexes. You can choose a tab to view the holdings each.

    Below the OPAC View box is the Selected Range. When you click a holdings range in the OPAC View, Millennium Serials displays the COVERAGE (or LIB HAS) data for that range in the Selected Range area.

  4. The Routing tab displays the individuals to whom this serial is routed. The tab heading shows the record number of the Holdings record.