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

, May 19, 2016 4:44 PM To: Evergreen Discussion Group 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 1000s of donors. Or for those where one donor,

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 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 nature

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

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 that

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

Scott, Many of our libraries would love searchable copy notes! Like you and others, we don't allow local information in the bib records. When we're migrating new libraries, it's a question we get asked about a lot, though. Our libraries make good use of the public copy notes, but that still d

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

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 searcha

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

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, as

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

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 2

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

Scott, Since your main use case is about applying the same message to many specific copies, like a "digital book plate", it might be interesting to consider using copy buckets with a new type of, say, "donation", instead. Each bucket of that type would get its own name and description fields, anal

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

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 inte

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

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 coll