[Evergreen-general] Ways to handle shelving location names?

[Terran McCanna]

We give permissions to designated staff at each library system to manage
their own shelving locations and they can name them whatever makes sense
for the patrons in that building.

We've found that it works best to have the shelving locations set at the
branch level. If you do this, the library can control the settings for a
very specific location. For example, if there needs to be a building repair
done in the YA FICTION section at one branch, the shelving location can be
temporarily made non-OPAC visible and non-holdable without affecting the
rest of the branch or affecting any other branches that use the same
shelving location name.

Terran McCanna, PINES Program Manager
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On Fri, Aug 11, 2023 at 3:08 PM Olivia Scully via Evergreen-general <
evergreen-general at list.evergreen-ils.org> wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
> We've been having some internal discussions around handling an
> increasingly large number of shelving locations across our consortium (over
> 1300 now), and wanted to ask you all for your thoughts & perspective.
>
> How do you all handle shelving locations? Do you have a set standardized
> list/a list of set options for libraries to choose from? Do you add new
> location names according to library request? Other ways you might handle
> locations?
>
> And what are the pros & cons of handling things that way vs. other ways?
>
> Any thoughts you can share would be very appreciated!!
>
> Thank you!
>
> Olivia
>
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