The 956 is table driven which minimizes input and delivers consistent results. The information in the 956 does not display in the online catalog. Below is a table of the information and MARC tag where the information resides. To promote consistency of information provided to the cataloger, we devised an electronic journal checklist. This checklist contains the journal information needed to create the MARC record and consequently the web pages.
Subject specialists are responsible for selecting electronic journals and completing the checklists.
Each new title is discussed in a selection meeting to ensure that all relevant subject categories are assigned and to alert subject specialists to new titles. Each line of the text file corresponds to a different electronic journal title. Elements 4-9 are repeated if there is more than one URL for a particular title. The text file is sorted by the sort title, then copied to our webserver. On the webserver, a script converts the text file into a set of HTML pages.