[Evergreen-catalogers] Automatic call number fill in

[sarahc at zionsville.lib.in.us]

Thanks, Jason. Glad I asked!

Thanks for the input, everyone. It was really
helpful.

I agree that with Kathy that configurable call number based on
applied on your template would be a great enhancement.


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



>> 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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