[Evergreen-catalogers] OPAC "format" field

[Melissa Lowenberg]

Hi Libby, 
I see your custom format icons (nice!) but could you clarify what you mean by format limits?  Not sure if you meant for narrowing searches or ?
Cheers,
Melissa 
Melissa Lowenberg

Supervisor of Support Services
Thompson-Nicola Regional District Library System
300 - 465 Victoria Street
Kamloops, BC
V2C 2A9



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Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2013 17:35:52 +0000
From: Elizabeth McLean <lmclean at kcls.org <mailto:lmclean at kcls.org> >
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Hello,

We add the local format codes Lisa listed in her message in MARC field 998, subfield "d" in all our cataloged bibliographic records. In the flat-text editor the field looks something like this: =998  \\$d <value>

Most of our record providers add this field and/or I use a Task in Terry Reese's MarcEdit program to add the field before we import the records. We also use OCLC Connexion macros that I created to add the 998 field before we export records to the catalog. Galen and the other wizards at ESI somehow made those values display our local format icons and format limits in our customized OPAC.

Libby McLean
Cataloging Librarian
King County Library System
lmclean at kcls.org <mailto:lmclean at kcls.org> 


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