1. Discovery and Application of Voyager's New
Complex Publication Patterns
Angela Slaughter
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2. Click to explore new features!
Flexible captioning
Extended combine and omit features
Ability to project dates of items published on certain
days of the month
Ordinal numbers
Ability to have a restarting first level of enumeration
Click to explore new features!

3. First screen after clicking

4. Issues in the cycle:
Number of issues expected in a given time frame.
Expected Date:
Number of time units between each issue.
Interval:
Day(s),
Week(s), Month(s),
and Year(s)
Expected Date and Interval work together to create the expected time period between receipt of issues.

5. Continuity:
Select either continuous or restart.
Enumeration:
Enter desired caption
(include all punctuation)
Enter a %
If other punctuation is needed, add after the %
The % will be converted into a number once the pattern is created.

6. Chronology:
Choose from the drop down menu.
Selections from top to bottom will read from left to right in pattern.
Alternate Enumeration/ Chronology:
Select to add whole numbering.
Select to add an alternate chronology level.

8. This screen displays after submit is clicked.
This is the issue cycle grid. Each row represents an issue in the pattern. Each cell will require formatted data.
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9. Each cell of the grid requires data in one of two formats:
Issue increments or Constant values
Constant values
Issue increments

10. Constant Values
Any value that will remain constant throughout issue cycles can be placed in quotes.
If an item is always published on the 15th day of the month “15” can be entered.
Example: months are commonly a constant value throughout issue cycles and can be placed in quotes.

11. The months were placed in quotes as were the dates because this information remained constant throughout issue cycles.
In this pattern each volume consisted of 2 issues, therefore “1” and “2” were entered.

12. Issue increments
Issue increments are used when a value will not remain constant throughout issue cycles.
Continuous numbering must be represented with issue increments.
Example: when years are used in patterns, they will increment upward continuously, therefore issue increments are needed.

13. +1 indicates an increase of one from the previous issue.
In order for the year to increment upward every cycle a +1 is needed to increase the year by one at the beginning of a new cycle. If “2006” was used instead, the year would never roll to 2007 and beyond.
The volume increments upward every other issue. +1 and +0 are used to obtain the desired result. If quotes were used the volume would increment properly until the new cycle started. At that point the new cycle would repeat the same volume numbers as the previous year.
+1 indicates an increase of one from the previous issue.
+0 indicates no change from the last issue.
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14. A Completed Pattern
Notice the parentheses? If you want this formatting around dates add on the issue cycle screen.

15. Complex patterns are started in the same way as regular patterns
Complex patterns are started in the same way as regular patterns. This is where the user will input values for the issue increments as well as the constant data.

16. If the data entered in the “Start Complex Prediction” window does not correspond to an issue described in the issue cycle tab the “Select a starting Issue” window will display. Simply select the starting issue and select OK.

18. Projecting Dates
Complex patterns allow the user to generate projected arrival dates for publications expected on certain days of the month.
MARC values for the days of the week are valid in combination with a designation for first, second, third, fourth, fifth, third to last, next to last and last day of the month.
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19. Projecting Dates First 01 Second 02 Third 03 Fourth 04 Fifth 05
Third to last 97
Next to last 98
Last 99
Monday mo
Tuesday tu
Wednesday we
Thursday th
Friday fr
Saturday sa
Sunday su
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20. Projecting Dates Examples
01:mo will generate the date of the first Monday of every month.
04:tu will generate the date of the fourth Tuesday of every month.
99:fr will generate the date of the last Friday of every month.
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21. More Resources Support Web
Acquisitions Documentation

22. Examples
Flexible captioning
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23. Flexible captioning

24. Ordinal numbers
Combined years

25. Restart for first level of enumeration

26. Date projection capabilities

27. Combined issue feature