Thinking outside the Check-in Box: Using the Library Catalog for Local Hosting and Management of An Electronic Periodical

Abstract

In 2005, the Kresge Business Administration Library at the University of Michigan acquired a new electronic periodical for its collection that had to be locally hosted by the library and was not currently part of any article database. Pressed with a need to present this resource to users in a way that would facilitate and promote use, a plan was developed to create individual records for each issue of this periodical and place them into the library’s public catalog. The article describes the process and the MARC record coding that was used for this title, and the ways that the library used this method for other specialized titles.