Providing users with a message to check local holdings or providing ways of automatically directing the user to a local catalog when an 856 field was present were also discussed. Discussion of whether to suppress the display of the 856 and the implications of doing this was held. There was a suggestion made that electronic resources always be cataloged in a separate bibliographic record. User frustration was also brought up as an issue, especially when users cannot get to the resource identified as an electronic resource. All institutions except two are currently using successive entry for the cataloging of serials.
Some libraries have older records that are latest entry cataloging.
Some either have completed recataloging older latest entry records to successive entry or are changing latest entry records to successive entry on an as encountered basis or are planning a project to recatalog latest entry records. The majority of institutions favor following the current, national standard of successive entry. Having a mix of successive and latest entry records for the same title has implications for retrieving accurate holdings information in Prospector. The impact of changing from latest to successive entry or vice-versa would be enormous and something not welcomed by the member libraries. Consistency of practice was viewed as highly desirable.