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

[Elaine Hardy]

That makes sense...

I think this must be a setting since the Z39.50 interface in the PINES
database blocks import of duplicate TCNs and has never given you the option
of editing any TCN, including incoming ones.

J. Elaine Hardy, PINES and Collaborative Projects Manager
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On Fri, Feb 24, 2023 at 1:12 PM Kate Coleman <kcoleman at jeffcolib.org> wrote:

> 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.
>
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> 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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>>
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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:
>>
>>> 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)
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>>> University of Prince Edward Island
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