A custom facet might be the way to go, thanks for the suggestion. That would make it much more accessible to users. We would probably purge the info after a certain amount of time, I'm not sure we need to be able to show what was released several months / years ago for each month.
Josh On Thu, Jan 15, 2026 at 8:23 AM Sierra Chastain-Rittue via Evergreen-general <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > I am fully spit-balling with this, but you may be able to make a custom > facet > <https://aspen-discovery.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/Help/pages/381648900/Facets#Custom-Facets> > that looks at that field in the MARC? That could get messy quickly, though, > with variations in date format and changes to pub dates. A translation map > that you maintain regularly may be necessary, in that case. I'll be curious > to see if you can get this working somehow! > > Best, > Sierra > > On Thu, Jan 15, 2026 at 9:06 AM Karen Young via Evergreen-general < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi Josh -- I don't think that I have all the pieces of the puzzle, but I >> might have a few. We have pub date information come over in our vendor >> brief records in the 260 $c. For us and our import settings, if the >> incoming record matches to an incumbent record, that pub date is NOT >> retained in the MARC, but I suspect there could be a way to retain it by >> editing your import settings (maybe? I've never actually attempted this.) >> Ingram allows you to format the pub date in several ways (and you can also >> have it come over in the 246 $c): >> [image: image.png] >> I've worked with vendors other than Ingram to include pub dates in our >> MARC downloads and they've all been able to do it. >> >> As for how you could easily find and use info from the 260 $c or 264 $c >> in Aspen... I'm not sure. (Maybe there's a way to get the date out of the >> MARC and into a notes field or call number in an automated fashion?) Of >> course the dates do occasionally become incorrect if pub dates get pushed. >> >> Hope some of this is helpful. >> >> Best, >> Karen >> >> *Karen Young* *(she, her, hers)* >> Manager of Cataloging & Acquisitions >> Kirkwood Public Library <https://kirkwoodpubliclibrary.org/> >> >> >> On Wed, Jan 14, 2026 at 4:35 PM Josh Stompro via Evergreen-general < >> [email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Hello, I was recently asked about generating lists of titles in Aspen >>> that will be released by month for 2026. We use on order records to get >>> those titles into our system so customers can start placing holds on them. >>> >>> Does anyone have a system for pulling in the release dates right now? >>> Anyone make use of the release dates for marketing? >>> >>> We have some records with MARC 263a data that was already added, but >>> only 38% of our on order records come in with that data. And it looks like >>> the data that is there isn't following the standard of YYYYMM and is mostly >>> YYMM. With a few records having YYYYMMDD info. So it needs to be cleaned >>> up in any case. >>> https://www.loc.gov/marc/bibliographic/bd263.html >>> >>> It looks like a keyword search in aspen will pull up records based on >>> the 263a data - 2601 or 202601 works to grab those records. >>> >>> So I was just looking around at how I could pull in that data for the >>> rest of them without making extra work for our cataloger. >>> >>> It looks like amazon probably has the information in their APIs. I >>> checked a few titles in Google Books API and didn't get any results, and >>> tried Open Library also, but they don't seem to have unreleased books in my >>> spot checks. I don't have an ISBNdb account to see if they include the >>> street date. >>> >>> Thanks >>> Josh >>> [image: Company logo] >>> *Josh Stompro* >>> *IT Director * >>> [email protected] | 218-233-3757 ext. 139 >>> *Lake Agassiz Regional Library* >>> 118 5th ST S >>> Moorhead MN 56560 >>> www.larl.org >>> *Our mission is to enrich lives and strengthen communities.* >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Evergreen-general mailing list -- >>> [email protected] >>> To unsubscribe send an email to >>> [email protected] >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> Evergreen-general mailing list -- >> [email protected] >> To unsubscribe send an email to >> [email protected] >> > > > -- > > Sierra Chastain-Rittue (she/they) > Web Support Specialist, C/W MARS, Inc. > > ------------------------------ > > [image: icon] [email protected] | [image: icon] www.cwmars.org > > [image: icon] 508-755-3323 x 1 > _______________________________________________ > Evergreen-general mailing list -- [email protected] > To unsubscribe send an email to > [email protected] >
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