[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Training Suggestions

[Caroline Derksen]

Hi everyone,

I'm the newly appointed area librarian at the Williams Lake Branch. Our library, as well as our network, the Cariboo Library Network (CLN), are scheduled to go live with Evergreen in May of this year.

The CLN is an integrated public library system that currently provides library services to residents of the regional district through 3 Area Branches (serving Williams Lake, Quesnel and One hundred Mile House) and 13 Community Branches (very small locations open around 10 hours a week in rural areas).

In anticipation of training, I'd just like to hear if anyone has advice or comments on how the process has gone. Or more importantly, anything you wish you had done?







Did you know . . .

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      that the Cariboo Regional District Library has 230,000 items, most of which can be borrowed?
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      we have over 3000 DVDs?
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      we have over 2000 music CDs?
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      last year, our patrons borrowed over 420,000 items?
    * annual inter-library loan traffic (the amount of books we lend to other libraries) has doubled since 2001?

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      we add roughly 15000 items to our collection each year?

I'd just like to ask about o

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From: open-ils-general-bounces at list.georgialibraries.org [mailto:open-ils-general-bounces at list.georgialibraries.org] On Behalf Of Melissa Lowenberg
Sent: Thursday, February 25, 2010 12:35 PM
To: sitka-talk at lists.bclibrary.ca; open-ils-general at list.georgialibraries.org
Subject: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Cataloging questions

Hello list members,
Is there a way to "clone" a record in Evergreen?  That is, if you have
the 2010 edition of a travel guide, can you simply modify the 2009
record, and save it as a new record by changing the appropriate
information and giving it a new control number?

Also, when you are doing a batch upload of records is there any way to
"force" a record to load even if it matches one already in the
database?  Since I use a different MARC editor than the one in
Evergreen, I would find it easier to improve records by loading a better
version of the record, then merging the two.  Is this possible?  I have
tried not checking the "Auto-Import Non-Colliding Records" box, then
selecting the records I want to load and "Importing Selected" - this
didn't seem to replace or duplicate the record in question.

Any assistance would be much appreciated,
Melissa

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Melissa Lowenberg, Supervisor of Support Services

TNRD Library System
#300-465 Victoria Street
Kamloops, BC V2C 2A9
Tel. 250-374-8866 Fax 250-374-8355

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