[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Evergreen Cataloging Module: a few questions

[Jason Etheridge]

On Oct 30, 2007 4:57 PM, Murphy, Sally <smurphy at georgialibraries.org> wrote:
> Hi – I can answer a couple of these (see below, in blue)

I'll see if I can answer the others.

[re: cut&paste]
> It is currently limited to only one subfield. Are you planning to extend this function beyond a single subfield?

You're the first to ask for this, but I'll definitely give it some
thought.  The current MARC Editor needs a lot of love (I'd like to see
a return of simple MARC validation with color coding, for example),
but there's also an effort to more directly integrate with OCLC's
Connexion client for those who want to use that.  Another possibility
is for us to use MARC editors from other open source ILS projects
(that's an advantage of open source, you can share and share alike,
and use best of breed components).

> [sk] As with the interface for importing authority records, an interface for
> importing large numbers of bib records is under development.  I believe this
> is slated for 1.2.x (possibly 1.2.4), though I'm not entirely sure.

Right now you can do this under the hood if you're comfortable with
Unix/Linux, but I'm looking forward to the front-facing interface for
this.

> [sk] There may be another way to do so, but one way to delete a bibliographic record is to delete the last copy attached to it.

You can also do batch deletion of records from the Record Bucket
interface.  I'll add a Delete Record option to the Actions for this
Record menu from the record details page in the staff catalog for more
convenient single-record deletion.

> Just out of curiosity, if there is a change in the spelling in the 1xx field of the authority record, will the system make this change appear to all the corresponding fields of the bibliographic records?

Not yet, but that's the plan.

> Is there a local field that retains all the edition history of the record (user and date) once it is in the catalog?

There is meta-data on who created a record and when, and who last
updated a record and when.  A historical record of that is available
in the database in audit tables, but there's no front-facing interface
for it.  One feature I would like to see in the future is the ability
to compare (and possibly restore) past revisions of a bibliographic
record.

Thanks Robert, Thanks Murphy!

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