To answer my own question #1, in the info about importing the Gutenberg records it explains how if you use a source for Gutenberg records (id=3 transparency is true) then those bibs can show without items being attached.
Seems like the default is to not have a bib show up in opac until an item is attached. Even if an item is attached, does it also have to be checked in? If so, we might want to not do that. We do not checkin every piece, it goes straight to the shelves. We suppress uncataloged materials, but we display all else, including on order pieces in the catalog. Is there any harm in loading a pretty substantial file of bibs with cataloging source 3, so they show in the opac and then loading the matching items later? Frances ________________________________ From: Frances Dean McNamara Sent: Tuesday, July 01, 2008 2:06 PM To: 'Evergreen Development Discussion List' Subject: Loading bibs questions We test loaded 1,000 bibs and are looking before we do more. A couple of issues I could use help with: 1. Bibs with no items do not display in OPAC. But there is a way to make them show up, isn't there? Something that can be set? We will need to do some experimenting to transfer some holdings. 2. Bibs do show up in OPAC view in Cataloging. But for an author 110 $a United States. $b Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce only United States shows up in the OPAC view as the author. We need the subfield b's. How do we get that to shoe? Thanks. Frances McNamara University of Chicago
