[Evergreen-catalogers] Automatic call number fill in

[Kathy Lussier]

Yes, thank you Jason! I didn't realize this would be so easy to configure.

Elizabeth, at first glance one way to remove it for some libraries  
would be to do what Jason suggested and remove that information just  
for the generic classification scheme in asset.call_number_class.

You could then set the default class scheme to generic for libraries  
that do not want to auto-populate that field and keep the default  
class scheme as Dewey or LC for those libraries that do want to  
auto-populate it.

If they then need to change the class scheme for a particular copy,  
they can do so by making sure the class scheme is included in their  
templates.

When we were discussing this yesterday, we were also thinking a nice  
future enhancement would be to allow libraries to identify the format  
of their call numbers by including this information in a template or  
perhaps by augmenting what Evergreen is already doing with the  
asset.call_number_class table.

For example, a library could say that for any fiction titles (or  
perhaps for their use of the generic classification scheme), the  
system should automatically generate a call number with the first  
three letters of the author's last name (all caps.) For non-fiction  
dewey numbers, they could continue to say to pull the Dewey number  
from the 082, but also configure it to only go up to three numbers  
beyond the decimal point (removing any slashes it encounters) and then  
add the first three letters of the author's last name (all caps.)

Kathy


Quoting Elizabeth Thomsen <et at noblenet.org>:

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