Hi Jason, Thank you for your reply to my question and your help.
In regards, to the TCN when you say Evergreen will export it to tag 901 or 903, if I were to insert my own custom TCN into one of these fields when cataloguing will Evergreen naturally use this as the TCN or will it still assign a system generated number? In regards, to field 001 how would I go about setting up a database trigger, as this is something I’m not completely familiar with yet. Kindest Regards, Joel On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 1:02 AM, Jason Etheridge <[email protected]>wrote: > > Is there any way possible to display the field 001 (Control No.), > > Hi Joel, display it where? > > > and is there a way I can modify it if I don’t want it to be automatically > generated for a particular Bib. > > I don't think Evergreen mucks with the 001 field normally, but you > could certainly setup a database trigger to modify or insert one as > needed. > > > record or does Evergreen use a different MARC field for the TCN? > > Evergreen keeps an internal record id for each bib, which is exposed > in the staff client in a few places as Record ID. It also tracks a > TCN value and TCN source, but does this outside of the MARC record > itself. There is a list of tags in the MARC that Evergreen will look > at when deciding upon an external TCN value, but if that value becomes > "auto-generated", it is not going to be inserted back into the MARC by > default. > > When exporting records from Evergreen, the record id, TCN source, and > TCN value is usually written to a 901 or 903 tag with various > subfields, though I forget the specifics. > > > I am also looking for some quick tips on setting up VuFind as an > alternative > > OPAC for Evergreen if anyone is able to help. > > I don't think anyone has written a connector yet, but you could use > the extras/fast_extract script for producing a periodic dump of bib > records for VuFind to ingest. There are lots of API's that a > connector could use for finding things like item status, etc. Someone > just needs to do the work. > > Hope this helps! > > -- > Jason Etheridge > | VP, Tactical Development > | Equinox Software, Inc. / The Evergreen Experts > | phone: 1-877-OPEN-ILS (673-6457) > | email: [email protected] > | web: http://www.esilibrary.com > > Please join us for the Evergreen 2010 International Conference! > It is being held April 20 - 23, 2010 at the Amway Grand Hotel and > Convention Center, Grand Rapids, Michigan. > http://www.evergreen2010.org/ >
