For serial bib records (e.g. travel guides) if the items have their volume information in the Volume field, only item-level holds are possible. We need volume-level holds. For monograph bibs, volume-level holds can be placed with no problem. We've heard other libraries use workarounds to deal with this: coding the bib's leader as monograph instead, or only using monograph bibs for serial titles. Either would cause its own problems, so we'd like to see volume-level holds work the same for serials as they do for multivolume monographs.

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Especially in a consortium like ours, this would help users get the first available copy of a particular volume without having to wait for their library's specific copy. This would also prevent libraries from having to use monograph bibs for their serials, when serial records can be more efficient.