On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 2:47 PM, Deanna Frazee <[email protected]> wrote: > On our checkout screen, we have a drop-down menu with 3 options. One is for > regular barcodes, one is for pre-cat items and one is for paperbacks. The > paperback option is for non-cataloged paperbacks that we just want to keep > stats on. The system records the checkouts, but does not actually put the > items on the record. At least, I’m pretty sure that is what is happening.
To elaborate a little, non-cats in EG are not barcoded, and you're able to configure a list of descriptive labels (and "loan periods") for however many non-cataloged categories you need, even per-library if desired. These items show up on checkout receipts with a due date and even show up on the patron's account for a while, but once their due dates hit, they "fade away". There's no mechanism for registering "returns" of such material. You''re able to gather statistics on non-cataloged circulations via reporting. Pre-cats are barcoded, but not cataloged (not even with a "brief" bib record). Temporary title and author information may be stored directly on the item record until such time as it is transferred to a bib record. If a given pre-cat has circulated several times before being cataloged, the bib record it ultimately ends up on will "get credit" for those circulations. -- Jason Etheridge | VP, Tactical Development | Equinox Software, Inc. / Your Library's Guide to Open Source | phone: 1-877-OPEN-ILS (673-6457) | email: [email protected] | web: http://www.esilibrary.com
