[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Error when importing bib record

2010-12-03 Thread John Clark
Good morning, Ihe error message copied below was received when I tried importing a bib record for a DVD set Earth2. This is the third time I've encountered the error message, each time when trying to import a DVD bib record. Any suggestions as to what's triggering it and how I might work

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Aged Circulation?

2010-12-03 Thread Kathy Lussier
Hi June, I haven't tried it myself, but one of my colleagues was just recently testing this. He ran a delete query for completed transactions in the action.circulation table, and a database trigger moved the transactions to aged circulation. I believe his network is planning to schedule a cron

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Aged Circulation?

2010-12-03 Thread Rayner, June
Thanks Kathy One of the things we're considering is that the patronless aged circulation is a great concept, but once the transaction is moved to aged circulation, we lose the patron statistical categories, some of which we need for long term reporting.We need to make sure this is handled

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Aged Circulation?

2010-12-03 Thread Jason Etheridge
One of the things we're considering is that the patronless aged circulation is a great concept, but once the transaction is moved to aged circulation, we lose the patron statistical categories, some of which we need for long term reporting.    We need to make sure this is handled in the

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] search book catalog using xml service?

2010-12-03 Thread Jason Etheridge
I am a developer and I am tasked with interfacing with an evergreen book database and return search results. The purpose is to full-fill book requests/orders if books are found in evergeen's database.  I am new to evergreen system.  Would someone please give me some directions on interfacing

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Aged Circulation?

2010-12-03 Thread Anna H. Reeves
Apologies to everyone for the errant email.

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Aged Circulation?

2010-12-03 Thread Martha Driscoll
If the aged_circulation table preserved the user statistical category and the copy statistical category then you would be less likely to keep the transactions over time and would therefore increase patron privacy. In our current system we use patron stat_cats for things like college major,

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Aged Circulation?

2010-12-03 Thread Jason Etheridge
On Fri, Dec 3, 2010 at 10:53 AM, Martha Driscoll drisc...@noblenet.org wrote: If the aged_circulation table preserved the user statistical category and the copy statistical category then you would be less likely to keep the transactions over time and would therefore increase patron privacy. My

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Academic Reserveswilliam shatner

2010-12-03 Thread Tara Robertson
Also, I have no idea where 'william shatner' ended up in the subject heading. Hilarious! Bizarre. tara

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Aged Circulation?

2010-12-03 Thread Mike Rylander
On Fri, Dec 3, 2010 at 10:53 AM, Martha Driscoll drisc...@noblenet.org wrote: If the aged_circulation table preserved the user statistical category and the copy statistical category then you would be less likely to keep the transactions over time and would therefore increase patron privacy. To

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Academic Reserves

2010-12-03 Thread Joan Kranich
Hi Dan, Thank you for sharing your workflow using bookbags for course reserves. I've started to create bookbags for our courses. When I share the bookbags they are shared by everyone and that will be a lot of bookbags for students to search through. Have you found a way to limit who has access

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Aged Circulation?

2010-12-03 Thread Martha Driscoll
It sounds like statistical categories are a much broader concept, more like a custom field with no assumptions about what kind of data users may choose to store. In that case, I can see the reluctance to store that information in the aged_circulation table. I think there may still be a role