[Evergreen-catalogers] Terminology in Cataloging

[Elaine Hardy]

You can set in defaults in the web client whether to always display the
holdings template or not. I have my defaults set not to open them and then
click on Show holdings details to see the call number editor if I do need
to see it after I chose Edit items.

I do see these as separate functions, which is why I set my default not to
see call number editor all the time.

I  would prefer that there be no way to edit holdings or items from the
check in screen at all. Those are cataloging function and shouldn't be
there. I obviously lost that argument a long time ago.

Since you can set that default or click on the Show Holdings details
button, I don't see the need to add more editing options in item bucket
actions menu. Typically, when I am working in an item bucket, I am not
changing call numbers since I generally am working across bib records and
are changing item attributes such as circ mods or shelving locations.

(you could edit multiple items across bib records in the XUL client from an
item bucket without opening individual records. I think the same was try of
item status. That was a bug that was fixed at some point)


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On Tue, Jan 21, 2020 at 5:34 PM Janet Schrader <jschrader at cwmars.org> wrote:

> Hi Beth,
>
> There is a difference between what's edited using the selections below.
> The "Edit call numbers" opens a screen with only the call numbers, no item
> record. This is helpful if you scan in a list of barcodes to change, add,
> remove a prefix, say from NEW to blank.
> There really is no difference in the web client, that I can see, between
> "Edit items" and "Edit items and call numbers". Both open the item record
> screen with both call number and the item record. I think this is a
> holdover from the xul client where "Edit items" opened a single item record
> screen containing only the item record fields, no call number. If multiple
> items are to be edited all displayed in the same item record.
> In xul there was no way to edit multiple items attached to different bibs
> at the same time. The choice to "Edit items/Volumes Per Bib" opened a tab
> for each bib record.
>
> Since the "Hide (or Show) Holdings Details" can suppress the call number
> area, is it really necessary to have two choices, "Edit items" and "Edit
> call numbers and items" when both do the same?
>
>
> Feel free, anyone, to jump in and correct me if I'm wrong.
>
>
> Janet
>
>
> Janet Schrader
>
> Bibliographic Services Supervisor | CW MARS
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>
> On Tue, Jan 21, 2020 at 11:29 AM Willis, Beth <willis at noblenet.org> wrote:
>
>> Staff at one of our member libraries have reported that terminology used
>> on different staff client screens is confusing.  Specifically:
>>
>> In the Item Status screen, the Actions menu includes three "Edit"
>> options:
>>
>>    - Edit Call Numbers
>>    - Edit Items
>>    - Edit Call Numbers and Items
>>
>>
>> On the Check In screen there is just one "Edit" option on the Actions
>> menu:
>>
>>    - Edit Holdings
>>
>> I noticed that on the Item Bucket screen, there is also just one "Edit"
>> option:
>>
>>    - Edit Items
>>
>>
>> I know that there was a lot of discussion about terminology as the web
>> client was developed, much of it detailed here:
>> https://bugs.launchpad.net/evergreen/+bug/1538691
>>
>> Have staff at your libraries also found differences in terminology
>> confusing?
>>
>> The variation in menu options may add to the confusion caused by the
>> difference in terminology.   Do you think that additional editing options
>> should be added to the Check in and/or Item Bucket screens?
>>
>> Thanks for your feedback.
>> Beth
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Beth Willis
>> Digital & Catalog Librarian
>> NOBLE, Inc.
>> 42 Cherry Hill Drive
>> Danvers, MA 01923
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