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Can I request files of all the serial holdings for our library?

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Applies to

  • WorldShare Collection Manager 

Answer

Use WorldShare Collection Manager to create a query collection to return MARC records for all of your print serial holdings. See:  Create a query collection

Since  you are going to be running the query to find serials only, you may find the material type documentation useful.

When you put together the query, the index for "material type" is "mt". The types that are listed as serial are: series, Newspaper, and periodical.  These are represented as mse, new, and per.

So an example query for all of the serials which your institution holds (replace [OCLC Symbol] with your OCLC symbol):

li:[OCLC Symbol] AND mt:ser

To return serials that have a URL present in the 856 field, use the search criteria:

li:[OCLC Symbol] AND mt:ser AND mt:url

Here is an example of a query created by a library who wanted records for all print serials on which they have an OCLC symbol (replace [OCLC Symbol] with your OCLC symbol):

li:[OCLC Symbol] AND mt:ser NOT mt:elc NOT mt:mic NOT mt:map NOT mt:rec

Here is a query created by a library who wanted records for all print serials that are missing LHRs:

li:[OCLC Symbol] NOT l4:[OCLC Symbol] AND mt:ser NOT mt:elc NOT mt:mic NOT mt:map NOT mt:rec​​​​​​​

Additional information

You may find it useful to organize the data you gain into a spreadsheet.

If you login to your staff WorldCat Discovery account, you can run these searches in Discovery to see the results. You can also see the results by doing a Record Manager keyword search for the selection criteria.

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