[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Non cataloged

[Jason Etheridge]

On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 2:47 PM, Deanna  Frazee
<dfrazee at ci.killeen.tx.us> wrote:
> On our checkout screen, we have a drop-down menu with 3 options.  One is for
> regular barcodes, one is for pre-cat items and one is for paperbacks.  The
> paperback option is for non-cataloged paperbacks that we just want to keep
> stats on.  The system records the checkouts, but does not actually put the
> items on the record.  At least, I’m pretty sure that is what is happening.

To elaborate a little, non-cats in EG are not barcoded, and you're
able to configure a list of descriptive labels (and "loan periods")
for however many non-cataloged categories you need, even per-library
if desired.  These items show up on checkout receipts with a due date
and even show up on the patron's account for a while, but once their
due dates hit, they "fade away".  There's no mechanism for registering
"returns" of such material.  You''re able to gather statistics on
non-cataloged circulations via reporting.

Pre-cats are barcoded, but not cataloged (not even with a "brief" bib
record).  Temporary title and author information may be stored
directly on the item record until such time as it is transferred to a
bib record.  If a given pre-cat has circulated several times before
being cataloged, the bib record it ultimately ends up on will "get
credit" for those circulations.

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