Reformatting Serials Solution journal lists

[Stacy Pober]

Up until this past fall, we had a web based in-house consolidated list of our 
print and electronic serials. Updating it was a bit of a PITA, so we signed up 
for Serials Solutions services.  

Serials Solutions now takes care of updating, but they also discard some of our 
local holdings note fields.  Also, our html presentation of the journal list 
was considerably different from the default format Serials Solutions provides, 
and we preferred to continue using our format (or something close to it.)

I have been customizing the Serials Solutions output files.  I'm sure there are 
programmers out there that could automate the process, but I've been doing it 
pretty quickly using Excel and Editpad.

If anyone's interested in trying it, I put the "How-to" instructions on the web 
at: http://www.manhattan.edu/~spober/ss.html

Also, one of our college IT staff set up SWISH-E (Simple Web Indexing System 
for Humans - Enhanced) to make the list searchable.  It's free, it's fast, it 
works well.  http://swish-e.org   (A php script from SS is another 
alternative.) 

Stacy Pober
Information Alchemist
Manhattan College Libraries
http://www.manhattan.edu/library/
stacy.pober at manhattan.edu

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