On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 03:07:17PM -0400, Jason Etheridge wrote: > > There is a way to do it, but it has been disabled for PINES libraries. > > Perhaps it is a setting > > you can change, if your library's needs are different. > > For the Z39.50 interface, you can force an import if you have the > ALLOW_ALT_TCN permission. Older versions of Evergreen didn't actually > seed this permission in their permission list, but an administrator > could create it manually and then grant it to specific permission > groups and it would work.
It is also possible in the MARC Editor in recent releases of Evergreen (1.6 I think) to edit the 001 field, which (if the record has a 001) can enable you to avoid an ID collision. In the 2.0 release, you will be able to set the global flag 'cat.bib.use_id_for_tcn' with will use the record ID for the TCN; this will prevent ID collisions from ever happening - which can be a good thing, or a bad thing, depending on your perspective. Good, from mine - I don't want duplicate bib records, but the complexity and limitations of the TCN model prior to 2.0 were pretty frustrating at times.
