[Evergreen-catalogers] Automatic call number fill in

[Elizabeth Thomsen]

Interesting -- I didn't know it was ever in the batch area.  I can see
where that would have been slightly less efficient in situations where you
nearly always are going to use that call number and you'd nearly always be
clicking Apply.  But I think my libraries would have found this much less
annoying: click Apply if you want it, ignore and do your own thing
otherwise.  I agree that seems like a cleaner approach.

These are workflow issues, but there's a little psychology involved, too. 
I think some people see the prepopulating of the call number box to be
"pushy," almost like the system is invading their inputting territory.  I
don't think they would have felt that way if the call number were in the
batch box.

-- 
Elizabeth Thomsen, Member Services Manager
NOBLE: North of Boston Library Exchange
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Danvers Massachusetts 01923
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On Fri, June 22, 2012 8:11 am, Hardy, Elaine wrote:
> 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
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> -----Original Message-----
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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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