Can I request files of all the print serial holdings for our library?
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.
Here is the selection criteria for all print serials (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
An example query for all of the print series, newspapers, and periodicals at your institution would be:
li:[OCLC Symbol] AND (mt:mse OR mt:new OR mt:per) NOT:elc
Additional information
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.