SCLENDS did the same thing. We came up with the same convention independently. It also helps a lot when doing various manipulations of report data.
-- Rogan Hamby Manager, Rock Hill Library 803-981-5853 York County Library System http://www.yclibrary.org | http://www.facebook.com/yorkcountylibrary “You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.” ― C.S. Lewis <http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/1069006.C_S_Lewis> On 11/6/12 10:38 AM, "Jason Etheridge" <ja...@esilibrary.com> wrote: >Don, I see no problems with that. One convention that PINES came up >with (or inherited from their previous system) was to combine the >system shortname with the branch shortname to expose a bit of the >hierarchy at a glance when looking at a specific lib, and to reduce >the chance of collision with shortnames. > >So for example, you may want to consider: > >ASLAN >-> ATS >->-> ATS-BLF >->->-> ATS-BLF-SA >->->-> ATS-BLF-BL >->-> ATS-MDD >-> AUL >->-> AUL-DFK >->->-> AUL-DFK-UA >->-> AUL-AUF > >-- Jason
