[Evergreen-catalogers] Automatic call number fill in

[Elizabeth Thomsen]

We were just talking about this today.  We're a consortium of 28
libraries, live on Evergreen for three weeks.  We have both Dewey and LC
libraries, and I thought the automatically-supplied call number would be a
handy feature and presented it as such in training.  But now that we're
live, several libraries have expressed their dislike for this and asked
that it be turned off.  Most of our libraries have large areas of their
collections that use generic call numbers of various types, and they find
it especially annoying that they get the Dewey or LC call number even when
they are applying a template that has generic specified as the call number
type.

At this point, they just want a way to turn this feature off for their
libraries.   I think an improvement that might make a difference would be
to have the call number only brought in when using a template that
specified Dewey or LC.

-- 
Elizabeth Thomsen, Member Services Manager
NOBLE: North of Boston Library Exchange
26 Cherry Hill Drive
Danvers Massachusetts 01923
E-mail: et at noblenet.org

On Thu, June 21, 2012 5:58 pm, sarahc at zionsville.lib.in.us wrote:
> Hi, Everyone.
>
> We have our Classification set to Generic, and if I understand
> correctly, that means the first call number in the MARC record
> gets automatically supplied in the call number box when I add
> volumes.
>
> This is useful to me probably less than 1% of the time, since the
> vast majority of the time the first call number listed is LOC,
> which we don't use. On the rare occasion the LOC number in the
> record, and a Dewey number is supplied, we don't use Dewey for all
> of our collections, so even that may not be useful.
>
> So most of the time it just means an extra step of deleting the
> supplied call number, which I assume is the opposite of the
> intention of automatically supplying a call number.
>
> I'm wondering if this is the general experience for other
> libraries with Generic setting?  Would others find it preferable
> if no call number was supplied?
>
> (For various reasons, we don't want to switch the setting to
> Dewey, at least not at this time.)
>
>
>
> Sarah Childs
> Senior Cataloger
> Hussey-Mayfield Memorial Public Library
> 250 North Fifth Street
> Zionsville, IN 46077
> 317-873-3149 x13330
> sarahc at zionsville.lib.in.us
>
>
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