The Collected Works Project that I have been working on is actually taking a good deal longer to accomplish than I had initially anticipated. Not only is it tedious, but I am really starting to encounter issues with the OPAC which I had previously been able to work around. For example, if I search for an item in the OPAC, and it is not given a series title, it will not show up in search results. While this might make sense to the casual user, I find it endlessly frustrating, in that I have to double and triple check by doing multiple searches for items before I mark them as not held by the library.
And even then I am sure I am missing some.
Doing this is Workflows is substantially easier, if only because I can easily view Call Number holdings, but Workflows also has its idiosyncrasies, combined with its lag which makes the process take, arguably, just as long. You would think in a digital age we would have perfected this to some kind of level. Ah well, I'm certainly learning a lot about how cataloging practices can possibly affect collection development. If I can't /FIND/ the item, I may accidentally purchase a second one -- which does not bode well for the library budget.
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