[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] What are EG consortia doing with status displaysin PAC?

[Duimovich, George]

Hello Melissa,

We're formerly a consortia now working as multi-branch library, but one thing we're doing differently is not displaying a column for every copy status. Instead, we output a single copy status column, with the one or more copy status values (which is usually 2 or less) for that bib record in a single cell. We're very tight on available 'real estate' so this format works better for us, especially since we haven't yet fully removed some of the redundancy in our copy statuses.

eg. http://catalogue.nrcan.gc.ca/opac/en-CA/skin/nrcan-rncan/xml/rdetail.xml?r=8070295

Regards,

George Duimovich
NRCan Library


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Subject: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] What are EG consortia doing with status displaysin PAC?
 
Hi Evergreeners,
As a Sitka library, I'm curious what other consortia are doing in regard 
to displaying status in the pac.  I am referring to the copy information 
that is displayed such as: available, checked out, in process, in 
transit, reshelving, missing, on holds shelf, on order, mending etc. 
Currently, we display 9 of the 19 available.

I'm interested in hearing what other Evergreen consortia are doing.  For 
example, did all of your libraries agree to a specific list to be 
displayed? Has your consortia or IT done something else that is really 
innovative?  We have both public and academic libraries in our 
consortia, small libraries and multi-site so everyone has slightly 
different needs and uses of the available status terms.

Thank you very much for your sharing your ideas,
Melissa

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