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SWAN Member Staff:

As many of you know, SWAN creates new bibliographic records each year for weekly and some especially popular monthly magazines. This prevents usability problems that can arise when too many items are attached to a single record.

The weekly serials records for 2017 are ready for the arrival of your 2017 subscriptions. A full list of these titles and their control numbers can be found on the support site under "SD Cataloging" or through this link: Weeklies 2017.

If there are any serials titles that you believe would benefit from similar treatment, please contact SWAN Support for consideration, and as always, don't hesitate to contact us at help@swanlibraries.net with any questions or concerns.

We are also announcing the release of a new Helper for the Modify Control Wizard in the Serial Control module: Change Title Link Helper.  The Change Title Link Helper can be used to sever the link between a Serial Control record and one title, allowing you to attach that same Serial Control record to a different title.  This allows you to “transfer” a Serial Control record from one title to another.  Please see the attached document for more information.

The Change Title Link Helper will be available for use beginning Wednesday, 11/30/2016.  Please feel free to use this Helper if you think it will positively affect your workflow.  If you prefer not to use the Helper and would also like it removed from the available Helpers in Modify Control Wizard, please send a ticket to help@swanlibraries.net.

Thank you.

Samantha Dietel
Consultant, Member Services
samantha@swanlibraries.net • (630) 326-8647

SWAN Library Services
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