[Evergreen-catalogers] Setting to generate an alternate TCN when importing a z39.50

[Kate Coleman]

We (well, I) do this often. Say I have a local bib and I'm originally
cataloging something similar, I'll just import that record that's already
in there and change it how I need it instead of building one from the
ground up. We've never gotten any kind of alert, though, and it always
creates a new TCN. We were on 3.8 and we just upgraded to 3.9 last week.





On Fri, Feb 24, 2023 at 11:58 AM Elaine Hardy via Evergreen-catalogers <
evergreen-catalogers at list.evergreen-ils.org> wrote:

> I don't recall this "feature".
>
> Why would you add a duplicate record to your database?
>
> J. Elaine Hardy, PINES and Collaborative Projects Manager
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> On Fri, Feb 24, 2023 at 10:42 AM Mackenzie Johnson via
> Evergreen-catalogers <evergreen-catalogers at list.evergreen-ils.org> wrote:
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>> Hi everyone,
>>
>> One of the staff in my unit has had an issue with z39.50 imports that
>> match against a pre-existing TCN (and not attempting a merge/overlay), as
>> I've documented on Launchpad here:
>> https://bugs.launchpad.net/evergreen/+bug/2008488
>>
>> As being provided an option to automatically generate a TCN when
>> otherwise faced with a match apparently used to be a feature, I am
>> wondering if it is possible that this functionality is hiding behind a
>> setting somewhere -- I was looking in the documentation and couldn't really
>> find anything, but maybe there's somebody out there who is using 3.8.0 and
>> is still able to use this functionality when importing z39.50 records.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Mackenzie Johnson, MLIS
>> (he/his/him)
>> Metadata Librarian
>> University of Prince Edward Island
>> Email: mtjohnson at upei.ca
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