John, "circulate as MARC type" allows you to circulate and item using circ rules for a different MARC type than is coded in the MARC record. This is particularly useful for some of the juvenile kits that consist of a book with an audiobook. These are generally cataloged on book format with the audio as an accompanying item in the 300 field. Since these would have the Type a for language material, you could set this to Type o for kit so that the item would circulate using the kit rules.
Let me know if you need any other attribute explained. There is a little explanation in out PINES cataloging with procedure manual (way behind == for version 1.4) under Chapter 4 Navigating the copy editor (http://pines.georgialibraries.org/cataloging-policies-and-procedures). I can answer anything specific, though. Elaine J. Elaine Hardy PINES Bibliographic Projects and Metadata Manager Georgia Public Library Service, A Unit of the University System of Georgia 1800 Century Place, Suite 150 Atlanta, Ga. 30345-4304 404.235-7128 404.235-7201, fax [email protected] www.georgialibraries.org http://www.georgialibraries.org/pines/ -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Boggs, John Sent: Sunday, October 09, 2011 11:46 AM To: Evergreen Discussion Group Subject: Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Looking for field definitions for item records Thanks, Brian. I'll spend some time with that schema today. -John ________________________________________ From: [email protected] [[email protected]] on behalf of [email protected] [[email protected]] Sent: Friday, October 07, 2011 4:37 PM To: Evergreen Discussion Group Subject: Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Looking for field definitions for item records Hi John, I have not seen definitive descriptions of the fields, and would be happy if somebody can indicate if this exists. What I use to find my way around the Evergreen tables is mostly the Evergreen 1.6 schema<http://open-ils.org/documentation/evergreen-schema-1.6.0.1.html>, which does not have column descriptions but tracing through foreign key relationships (which are very helpfully hyperlinked) helps quite a bit. To tease out what a particular column gets used for may also require some searching through source code to see where it gets used, but that can become a daunting undertaking. Brian ________________________________ From: "John Boggs" <[email protected]> To: "Evergreen Discussion Group ([email protected])" <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, October 7, 2011 3:36:58 PM Subject: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Looking for field definitions for item records Hi all, Ive searched the documentation, the source code, and Google, and I cant turn up definitions of the various item fields in Evergreen. Some are obvious, like barcode. Others less so (to me), like circulate as MARC type. Is there a list anywhere that defines all the various item fields? Im working on a migration from Millennium and need to figure out what to map to where. Thanks! John D. Boggs, PLAN Database Manager Peninsula Library System 2471 Flores Street San Mateo, CA 94403-2273 (650)571-6799 x3062 [email protected]<about:blank>
