Those sound like great enhancements for managing transcendence!
We have a couple of other questions about electronic resources in the
catalog. Is there any way to suppress the whole copy display area? That
would be the "View copy information for all libraries" link, the column
headings for copy information, the statement "There are no copies in
this location" when, of course, there are -- they just aren't physical
copies.
Also, is there a way to lose the Place Hold link on these?
Thanks in advance for any suggestions!
On 9/30/2010 8:34 AM, Melissa Belvadi wrote:
I recommend you seriously consider using the "source" option that Dan
listed.
To give you more detail, every bib record has attached to it a field
called the "source".
There's a table that lists all of the possible sources (you can add more
as needed), and for each one, whether it is "transcendent" or not.
Transcendent simply means that the record will be visible in the OPAC
without any items attached and even if you haven't added anything extra
to the 856.
So, for instance, for our ebooks, we have a special "source" which is
set to transcendent, and when we add ebook records, we change the source
from the default to this other source.
I just find this a cleaner option from a cataloguing perspective than
adding a subfield to the 856.
Very recently, we (UPEI) had the wonderful Dan Scott add two things to
make this much easier - the ability to modify the source in the staff
client on a per-record basis, and a fix to the Vandeley (Batch import)
so that the "source" pulldown there actually worked.
Dan, is that code out there for Mary to use in her system yet?
FYI, the table in question is config.bib_source for your SQL people, and
the bib field that references it is biblio.record_entry.source.
Melissa Belvadi
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>>> On 9/29/2010 at 11:02 AM, in message <4CA34A0A.D6C : 92 : 60780>,
Mary Llewellyn <[email protected]> wrote:
Ah, that's disappointing. The display of multiple 856s will be ugly and
confusing to the library patrons.
Thanks for the reply.
Mary
At 08:58 AM 9/29/2010, you wrote:
Quoting Mary Llewellyn <[email protected]>:
Jumping in here with a question about adding subfield 9. If we have
more than one library subscribed to an e-resource, can we add
multiple subfields 9 to a single 856 to display the bib in each of
those libraries' public catalogs?
You can add multiple 856 tags. IIRC they are repeatable.
Also, in checking the code, it looks like you're expected to add
multiple 856s, one for each holding library.
Also, in 2.0 at least, the shortname can go in a subfield 9, w, or n.
HtH,
Jason Stephenson
Merrimack Valley Library Consortium
Sent from my iPad
On Sep 28, 2010, at 9:30 PM, Dan Scott <[email protected]> wrote:
On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 05:13:03PM -0500, Deanna Frazee wrote:
Thanks Dan,
It makes sense. But my problem is that the MARC record is not
displaying at all in the public catalog. I'm assuming this is because
there is no holding record, but perhaps I'm wrong?
There are three ways a record can be made visible in the public
catalogue:
* Set the record source to a transcendent source
* Add a copy with a visible status in a visible copy location in a
visible library
* (As of 1.6) add an 856, first indicator 4, second indicator 0,
with a $9 subfield with a value matching a shortname in your
search scope
If your record isn't displaying in the public catalog, and you have an
856 40 $9 SHORTNAME in the record, then perhaps something else is wrong
with the record or your configuration. At this point, without a concrete
example, there's not much I can do to help diagnose the problem
further.
Mary Llewellyn
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Bibliomation, Inc.
Middlebury, CT
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