[Evergreen-catalogers] Automatic call number fill in

[sarahc at zionsville.lib.in.us]

To my mind it makes more sense to alter the generic so that the
default is to supply no call number. If the idea with generic is
that you are going to be creating a non-Dewey, non-LOC call
number, why would you want one of those automatically filled in?
That seems to give it a "brand," doesn't it?

If you want them filled in, you would set Dewey or LOC as the
classification scheme.

Adding a custom classification would make sense if you were going
to auto-fill something other than LOC or Dewey, though.

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

> In theory, instead of altering the generic, couldn't a
> "Blank/Custom"
> be added and set as the default?
>
> I will admit to not having looked at the issue fully, so it could
> be
> that for some reason the system is hardcoded to only support the
> three....but I don't recall seeing anything to indicate that.
>
> Thomas Berezansky
> Merrimack Valley Library Consortium
>
>
> Quoting "Hardy, Elaine" <ehardy at georgialibraries.org>:
>
>> You're nicer than I am. As long as it was beneficial to some of
>> our
>> libraries, I would tell the rest to ignore the suggested call
>> number and
>> add the generic call number they need. Especially since the
>> batch function
>> replaces the call numbers across all volumes they're adding to a
>> record.
>> It doesn't disrupt their workflow since they would have to add
>> the call
>> number anyway.
>>
>> 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/
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: evergreen-catalogers-bounces at list.evergreen-ils.org
>> [mailto:evergreen-catalogers-bounces at list.evergreen-ils.org] On
>> Behalf Of
>> Elizabeth B. Thomsen
>> Sent: Friday, June 22, 2012 12:05 PM
>> To: evergreen-catalogers at list.evergreen-ils.org
>> Subject: Re: [Evergreen-catalogers] Automatic call number fill
>> in
>>
>> Interesting discussion, and some good ideas.
>>
>> My immediate problem of having libraries who wanted to turn off
>> this
>> behavior entirely was solved by Jason and Kathy's advise.  We
>> removed the
>> information just for the generic classification scheme in
>> asset.call_number_class and set the default classification
>> scheme to
>> generic for libraries that do not want to auto-populate the call
>> number.
>>
>> I'm glad that with the help of the community something I thought
>> we
>> couldn't do yesterday we were able to fix this morning!  Thanks!
>>
>> --
>> Elizabeth Thomsen, Member Services Manager
>> NOBLE: North of Boston Library Exchange
>> 26 Cherry Hill Drive
>> Danvers MA 01923
>> E-mail: et at noblenet.org
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