[Evergreen-catalogers] Copy Tags

Mary Llewellyn mllewell at biblio.org
Tue Sep 25 09:08:58 EDT 2018


When I played with copy tags, I had to turn on a new flag "Enable Digital
Bookplate search" in Library Settings. The new search shows up in the same
dropdown menu as keyword, title, author, etc. It can be used as a keyword
search looking only at copy tags.

Mary


On Mon, Sep 24, 2018 at 1:41 PM, Janet Schrader <jschrader at cwmars.org>
wrote:

> Hello everyone,
>
> I have a few questions on using copy tags. Just starting to work with out
> network's bib committee to create a best practices document. I'm using
> pages 272-274 and pages 451-455 in the Evergreen documentation from the
> wiki.
>
> Here's what I know so far, please correct me if I'm wrong.
>
> Copy tag types:
>
>    - At the central site we can create a "type of copy tag".
>    - There can be multiple "types" of copy tags.
>    - Copy tag "types" can belong to a org unit or to the network.
>
> Copy tags in item records:
>
>    - A library can select the "type of copy tag".
>    - A library can assign a label and a value to their copy tag. They can
>    also assign a staff note.
>    - The value is what displays in the OPAC.
>    - The copy tag can be OPAC visible or visible only in the staff client.
>    - The copy tag belongs to a specific org unit.
>
>
>
> Questions:
>
>    - How are the types of copy tags added to the drop-down menus?
>    - How are the copy tags indexed?
>    - Is this an additional index so that searching for "Summer Reading"
>    for example only looks for tags that have the "type" Summer Reading?
>    - What copy tag fields are included in the keyword index, just the
>    label, just the value, or both?
>    - Does the drop-down menu choices of tags vary depending on the org
>    unit searched (scoped)?
>
>
>
>
> Thanks,
> Janet
>
>
> Janet Schrader
>
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>
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