[Evergreen-catalogers] Automatic call number fill in

[Elizabeth Thomsen]

Thanks, Jason!  This is very helpful.  Is there any way to remove this for
some libraries and not others?

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Elizabeth Thomsen, Member Services Manager
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Danvers Massachusetts 01923
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On Fri, June 22, 2012 12:48 am, Jason Etheridge wrote:
>> 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.
>
> FWIW, all of this is configurable.
>
> By default, EG looks for call numbers in the following places based on
> class and grabs the first one it finds:
>
> Generic:
> 050ab,055ab,060ab,070ab,080ab,082ab,086ab,088ab,090,092,096,098,099
> Dewey: 080ab,082ab,092abef
> Library of Congress: 050ab,055ab,090abef
>
> There's no GUI for tweaking this, alas, but your database admin can do it.
>
> If you don't want any auto-call number at all, just remove those tags
> from the field column in table asset.call_number_class.  Or, you could
> create a whole new call number classification that sorts like one of
> the existing ones (based on the normalizer column), but doesn't
> provide auto-call numbers.
>
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