Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Searchable Copy Notes

2016-05-20 Thread scott.tho...@sparkpa.org
, May 19, 2016 4:44 PM To: Evergreen Discussion Group <open-ils-general@list.georgialibraries.org> Subject: Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Searchable Copy Notes Clarifies; but, I'm still not convinced it would be a viable solution. Especially for a library with 1000s of donations from 100s if not

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Searchable Copy Notes

2016-05-19 Thread Elaine Hardy
Clarifies; but, I'm still not convinced it would be a viable solution. Especially for a library with 1000s of donations from 100s if not 1000s of donors. Or for those where one donor, such as a local business, might donate money for hundreds of items every year. The inefficiency and insular

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Searchable Copy Notes

2016-05-19 Thread Mike Rylander
Sarah, Thanks, that's useful use-case information. I don't want to muddy the waters any more with specific backend details, because regardless, development will be required. To move this outside the discussion of implementation details, would it be fair to say that, for the uses you mention

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Searchable Copy Notes

2016-05-19 Thread Mike Rylander
Elaine, Sorry, I should have mentioned that all of what I said still requires development, and adding display of specific types of buckets would be a trivial component of that work. The fact that public copy notes can display in the OPAC today doesn't really mean that making their content

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Searchable Copy Notes

2016-05-19 Thread Elaine Hardy
The main problem I see with the copy bucket approach is that it removes the direct acknowledgement of the gift a public copy note gives by being displayed in the OPAC, which is desired by many donors. They want everyone to see that they donated the book both in the book itself and in the OPAC,

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Searchable Copy Notes

2016-05-19 Thread Sarah Childs
My first thought is that like us, the libraries in Scott's consortium likely already have 1000s of existing copy notes that they want to be able to search. The alternate proposal sounds interesting, but I want to be able to search all the data that I already have. We've been using Evergreen since

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Searchable Copy Notes

2016-05-19 Thread Jason Etheridge
There's also infrastructure for not-in-MARC bib notes, if that's worth fleshing out. -- Jason On Thu, May 19, 2016 at 1:14 PM, scott.tho...@sparkpa.org < scott.tho...@sparkpa.org> wrote: > Hi, > We are trying to gauge community support for creating, in the staff > client, a keyword search

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Searchable Copy Notes

2016-05-19 Thread Donald Butterworth
Hi Scott, One alternative to your proposal is to use a 541 (Immediate Source of Acquisition) note in the bib record rather than a note in the item/copy record. This field is primarily intended for "original or historical items or other archival

[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Searchable Copy Notes

2016-05-19 Thread scott.tho...@sparkpa.org
Hi, We are trying to gauge community support for creating, in the staff client, a keyword search interface for Copy Notes. We are a statewide consortium. Since bib records are shared, we do not allow our members to use Local Notes tags like 590 for very localized information like "In memory