[Evergreen-catalogers] Automatic call number fill in

[Hardy, Elaine]

I much preferred earlier versions where the suggested call number was in
the batch apply area and not in the call number box. While one can still
edit and then apply the call number in the batch apply area and have it
supersede all the call number boxes, it just was a little cleaner to
perception of the functionality.

Elaine
 
 
J. Elaine Hardy
PINES Bibliographic Projects and Metadata Manager
Georgia Public Library Service,
A Unit of the University System of Georgia
1800 Century Place, Suite 150
Atlanta, Ga. 30345-4304
404.235-7128
404.235-7201, fax
 
ehardy at georgialibraries.org
www.georgialibraries.org
http://www.georgialibraries.org/pines/

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sarahc at zionsville.lib.in.us
Sent: Thursday, June 21, 2012 5:58 PM
To: evergreen-catalogers at list.evergreen-ils.org
Subject: [Evergreen-catalogers] Automatic call number fill in

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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