Thanks for the input from everyone! I will have to do some more thinking. We have been talking about possibly changing our ILS for a while and it looks like that may finally occur in the next year. That was part of my reasoning for not really investigating what Dynix can do for me and concentrating on Excel for portability.
Todd Barrett
Message: 2
Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2012 08:49:48 -0500
From: acqnet-l_at_lists.ibiblio.org
Subject: Re: [ACQNET-L] Keeping track of standing orders
To: "acqnet-l_at_lists.ibiblio.org" <acqnet-l_at_lists.ibiblio.org>
Message-ID:
<3407E09ECC6C3C48B56316C286E147D801A094BABC2E_at_PRODEXCHMB3.ittesi.com>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
Todd,
When I worked in a SIRSI environment we had multiple order types to accommodate the different ways items were ordered. In our case, we used the subscription order type for both straight subscriptions and continuations and checked both kinds of material in on serial controls. Here, they parted ways: we then processed the continuations as volumes just as you describe.
Even if your periodicals department doesn't want you to check in volumes using the serials module, you can create orders in the acquisitions module for payments and reports. Perhaps you'd have to to create a new order type ("standing order") or dedicate a standing order fund to help you differentiate standing from firm orders, but it can be done.
So I'd highly recommend tracking them in your ILS. 1,000 standing orders must translate into a significant amount of money, and you're working awfully hard at something that your ILS should be able to do for you.
(I should add that I'm in a millennium library now and I track our tiny list of 37 standing orders in both the ILS *and* excel because of our own internal needs. Every library has them!)
Good luck,
Sarah
Sarah B. Cornell, Librarian
Daniel Webster College
20 University Drive
Nashua, NH 03063-1300
cornell_at_dwc.edu
603-577-6209
_______________________________________________
ACQNET-L mailing list
ACQNET-L_at_lists.ibiblio.org
http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/acqnet-l
Received on Wed Feb 22 2012 - 13:16:06 EST