On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 09:40:53AM -0500, Bill Erickson wrote: > Hi Shasta, > > On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 10:51:43AM -0500, Shasta Brewer wrote: > > We are going through the preliminary tasks to implement acquisitions > > for our next fiscal year which starts in July. I would like to thank > > the people responsible for the documentation for administrators and > > staff as to how acquisitions works. It seems to be very thorough and > > easy to follow. Of course I have a question. We have the defaults > > loaded for cancel reasons. I am accustomed to having a handful of > > reasons to cancel a title on order which include osi (out of stock > > indefinitely), os (out of stock), op (out of print), ppi (publication > > postponed indefinitely), can (cancelled), etc. When I looked at the > > defaults I got a chuckle ---airline attendants--really??? Does anyone > > know where this list came from (not a criticism, I'm just curious)? > > Have other libraries used it or is it just easier to delete the entire > > list and start over? What do other libraries use for cancel reasons? > > Any advice that people can give which is not included in the > > documentation would be greatly appreciated. We are a consortium (SC > > LENDS) on release 2.1.1. Each of our 15 library systems does their own > > acquisitions for their libraries. > > The list comes from the EDI specification. At the time, it was not clear > what cancel causes Evergreen would use, but we have a better grasp of that > now. Here's the list actually used by Evergreen: > > 1, 'invalid_isbn', 'ISBN is unrecognizable' > 2, 'postpone', 'Title has been postponed' > 3, 'delivered_but_lost', 'Delivered but not received; presumed lost' > > Anything with an ID < 2000 is custom and/or not part of the EDI spec > and should be kept.
Correction, any ID >= 2000 is a local/custom cancel reason. -b -- Bill Erickson | Senior Software Developer | Equinox Software, Inc. / Your Library's Guide to Open Source | phone: 877-OPEN-ILS (673-6457) | email: [email protected] | web: http://esilibrary.com
