[Evergreen-catalogers] Evergreen-catalogers Digest, Vol 12, Issue 17

[Galen Charlton]

Hi,

On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 8:56 AM, Meredith A. Lowe
<MLowe at museumofflight.org> wrote:
> By default I mean the call number that shows in the OPAC. Sometimes it shows the Dewey number sometimes a partial LC number.

Evergreen comes with three classification schemes by default:

- generic
- Dewey
- LC

Each classification scheme comes with a list of MARC tags to look at
when finding the bib call number.  In the case of generic, that list
is by default:

050ab,055ab,060ab,070ab,080ab,082ab,086ab,088ab,090,092,096,098,099

Each tag is checked in order; the first one that is present in the
record becomes the source of the bib call number.

Note that if only the tag number is listed, the only the subfield $a
is looked at, so that's why you're not seeing the Cutter from the 090.

For reference, the default tag list for Dewey is

080ab,082ab,092abef

and for LC is

050ab,055ab,090abef

There is a library setting called 'Default Classification Scheme' that
you can use to specify which scheme applies to that library or org
unit.

Unfortunately, at present there is no way to tweak the tag list from
the staff client.  I've filed a wishlist bug for that [1], but for now
whoever has SQL access to your Evergreen's can update the list of tags
by modifying the asset.call_number_class table.

[1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/evergreen/+bug/1169647

Regards,

Galen
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