[OPEN-ILS-DEV] EG 2.0 alpha4 problem with MARC defaults in Add MFHD Record

[Mike Rylander]

On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 1:34 PM, Galen Charlton <gmc at esilibrary.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Nov 11, 2010, at 11:25 AM, Dan Scott wrote:
>> I'm struggling a bit with the 003 contents; we generate those on
>> the database side based on the library that owns a given record. But as
>> far as I can tell, we haven't exposed a UI that enables libraries to set
>> the owner of a given record. So the records are all getting the
>> consortial 003 value (control number identifier), even though one could
>> reasonably expect that if you've logged into BR1 and are creating a
>> record that it should be owned by BR1 and get the BR1 control number
>> identifier.
>
> That is indeed a grey area, particularly in a consortial catalog.  I suspect that more most practical purposes, setting it to the shortname of the top OU would be sufficient, but if users would care about distinguishing between the consortium and members of the consortium as far as the 003 is concerned, I think it would have to be a setting.  A consortium might want the 003 set to the library level OU based on the workstation of the cataloger (or some notion of bib record ownership), while a multi-branch system may want it set to the top-level OU.
>

In order to avoid reimplementing later, or having a complex set of
conditions to check, would documenting that "it will use the top of
the tree until we create an owner interface, at which time it will use
record owner" be an acceptable interim solution?  That puts a little
pressure on us to actually create the interface.

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