Enter Public Notes for a Serial Holdings Record

If the serial title is set to display in PAC and at least one issue is generated and checked in, the notes entered on the Public Notes view appear in Polaris PowerPAC and Mobile PAC at the serial title’s branch level display. See Serial Holdings Record Fields Affecting Serials Display in PAC.

To enter public notes for a serial holdings record:

Important:
At least one issue, with or without a linked item, must be generated and checked in for the public note to display in PAC. You can enter free-text enumerationThe designation reflecting the alphabetic or numeric scheme used by the publisher on an item or assigned when the holdings statement is created to identify the individual bibliographic or physical parts and to show the relationship of each unit to the unit as a whole., such as This publication has ceased, and a call number, such as Storage, to indicate it is not a real issue.

  1. On the Serial Holdings Record workform, select View, Public Notes or click SHRnotesicon.gif 

The Public Notes view appears.

  1. Type a note in the Shared public note box. You can enter up to 4,000 characters. Press Enter to go to the next line, and the line breaks will display in the PAC as they are entered in the Shared public note box.
  2. Save the serial holdings record.