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

[Elaine Hardy]

Thanks for the explanation!

I am so grateful we have the privilege of having a single source for our
bib records.

J. Elaine Hardy, PINES and Collaborative Projects Manager
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On Fri, Feb 24, 2023 at 1:16 PM Sarah Childs <sarahc at hmmpl.org> wrote:

> Elaine, for libraries that import from multiple sources, with non-OCLC
> TCNs, you can have two totally different records with the same TCN. Imagine
> you couldn't import a record because the Evergreen database ID conflicted
> with a database ID from a different system.
>
> I don't recall a feature where you could automatically generate a TCN
> (maybe there was something like that with batch import?)  But there were
> previous versions where you could edit the existing TCN in the flat text
> editor, which was really handy when you run into this problem.
>
> On Fri, Feb 24, 2023 at 12:58 PM 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:
>>
>>> 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
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