On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 09:34:19AM -0300, 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.
Right - the transcendent source approach works well as long as every library in a consortial install of Evergreen has equal access to the described resource. One could use two different approaches at the same time, really: use transcendent sources for publicly available electronic resources (such as government publications), and use the 856 $9 approach for electronic resources that are licensed per-library or per-system within the consortium to avoid making resources that are not accessible to other libraries from being visible to patrons of those libraries. > 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? Melissa, all of the code is in trunk / 2.0, of course, so it's already visible in the Evergreen 2.0 alpha 3 release. For these particular pieces, I committed the fix for setting the bib record source in MARC Batch Import/Export to the rel_1_6_1 branch in http://svn.open-ils.org/trac/ILS/changeset/17493/branches/rel_1_6_1 but there has not yet been another 1.6.1.x release to get the fix into an official release. I committed the bib source editor in the MARC Editor to the rel_1_6 branch in http://svn.open-ils.org/trac/ILS/changeset/17402/branches/rel_1_6 - it looks like this could be relatively easily backported to rel_1_6_1 as well, but as a new feature instead of a pure fix, it really shouldn't be pulled into a 1.6.1.x release, but should wait for a 1.6.2.x release. Dan
