[Evergreen-catalogers] Automatic call number fill in

[Elizabeth Thomsen]

Thanks, Kathy, that sounds like it would work -- we'll definitely try it
out.  The libraries who don't like this REALLY don't like it, and they'll
be happy to see this gone.

The development to expand the call number feature with configurations tied
to templates as you describe would be wonderful. This is similar to the
specifications vendors use for spine labels for processed material.

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Elizabeth Thomsen, Member Services Manager
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On Fri, June 22, 2012 7:02 am, Kathy Lussier wrote:
> 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?
>>
>> --
>>
>> 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 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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