Hi Lebbeous,
I won't speak for Tim on the grouped serials display, but I have spent
some time looking at the display and, overall, prefer this display over
the default serials display. However, in my testing, I've found you
can't display a textual holdings statement from the 866 field when using
this display. Many of our libraries like to display a holdings statement
that says "current two years" to give users a quick snapshot of what
they have available.
Is that something that can be displayed when using the grouped serials
display?
Thanks!
Kathy
Kathy Lussier
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Massachusetts Library Network Cooperative
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On 1/15/2013 10:41 AM, Lebbeous Fogle-Weekley wrote:
Hi Tim,
In general ordered parts and parts display in the TPAC would be a very
good thing, I'm sure. I am curious, though, about parts' relationship
to serials.
How are you making your received serials issues into parts? I'm not
familiar with any way that Evergreen would do this for you without
special effort. Maybe through Holdings Maintenance or some kind of
scripted operation?
Also, have you considered turning on the grouped serials display,
which is at least more sensible than the default copy display? See
the second and third screenshots of this document:
http://docs.evergreen-ils.org/2.3/_displaying_issues_in_the_opac.html
for any example of what that would look like.
Regards,
Lebbeous
On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 10:04 AM, Tim Spindler <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
C/W MARS is looking at potential development on this function and
is looking for community comment.
*Idea:*Ability to set parts order
*
*
*Description:*Parts are currently appearing in no real discernible
order.We would like to be able to define the order in which they
appear.
*
*
*Expected Functionality*
·From the bibliographic record, provide a menu option on the
manage parts screen of actions for this record to set the order of
parts on this screen.
·A default sort order will be defined by an alpha sort of the
label_sortkey in the monograph_part table.
·Parts will display on holdings in the TPAC and holdings
maintenance in the order defined through the manage parts
screen.This sort order will occur after sorting by organizational
unit, prefix, call number,and suffix.
*Use Cases *
Acataloger splits up a title “My Movie Set” into a 12 disk with
its own part assigned.The parts include and should display in the
following order.
·Disk 1
·Disk 2
·Disk 3
·...
·Disk 8
·Disk 9
·Disk 10
·Disk 11
·Disk 12
Similarly, we have Woman’s Day with parts for each issue received
as well as a copy record for each issue that is holdable and would
like them to display in date order:
·JAN 2013
·FEB 2013
·MAR 2013
See also Field & Stream
(https://bark.cwmars.org/eg/opac/record/140662?fi%3Aitem_type=;query=field%20and%20stream;qtype=jtitle;locg=32;)
as an example of how it is now.
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