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Graphic novels

Beginning on December 1, 2015 all new bibliographic records for graphic novels added to the SWAN catalog will be created as individual monograph records. We will discontinue previous SWAN practice of using a monographic series record for the numbered series. Existing monographic series records will be closed out as we add the next title in the series. This decision was made by SWAN Bibliographic Services staff and SWAN OCLC Cataloging Libraries. In recent years, we have experienced challenges with the monographic series records both in acquisitions and cataloging. We believe this change will enhance the patron holds experience. Please make note that you will no longer add a subfield |z to the call number as there will be an individual record for each volume/title.

Item Category 1 Large Type

We have discovered that some Large Type items did not have Item Category 1 mapped to Large Type during the migration data mapping process. There are approximately 20,000 items that have Item Type Large Type and Item Category 1 Book. We will perform a global update to change these to Item Category 1 Large Type next week.

Additional DISCARD User

If you would like one additional DISCARD User for your library, please submit a ticket request to help@swanlibraries.net . We have received feedback from libraries that an additional DISCARD User might be helpful depending on local work flow. Items checked out to the additional DISCARD User will be processed for deletion with the monthly deletions on the 1^st of each month.

If you have any questions, please contact me.

Karen Bar
SWAN Bibliographic Services Manager
125 Tower Drive
Burr Ridge, IL 60527
Phone: 630.734.5138
Fax: 630.734.5056
karen.bar@railslibraries.info
http://support.swanlibraries.net