[OPEN-ILS-DEV] Question about locations

[Frances Dean McNamara]

I thought I had posted the below question but I think it bounced, so here it is again:

We have loaded 3.8 million bibs in our test installation and I have asked our catalogers to take a look. (We plan to load the rest of our bibs over the weekend).



I have questions about how to use the org units in the item attributes.  I added a volume and an item, I gave it Owning location UC, Circ location JRL and shelving location Regenstein Bookstacks, which has JRL as its owning location in the copy_location table.  I am logged on with my workstation set as UC.  The items displays in the opac view with JRL location, and in the details it shows Regenstein Bookstacks.  However, when I am in cataloging and call up the bib again, then choose Holdings Maintenance, I get a line that says UC has 1 vol and 1 copy but I cannot get at that item to edit the attributes.  Am I doing something wrong?



Do the shelving locations have to have UC as the owning location?



If I make JRL Owning location, then staff in the Law library, DLL cannot see those items.  That may be what is needed in a consortium, but our staff want to see all the items owned by the university library whether they are circulating out of the law library or the main library.  I had a discussion on this list in the past and was advised to have a 2 level set of org units, then use the shelving locations for what are collections in our current system.



Advice anyone?



Frances McNamara

University of Chicago