[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Evergreen Cataloguing Module Help Question - Forgot some detail

[Jason Etheridge]

On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 8:27 AM, Harbottle, Joel R
<joel.r.harbottle at gmail.com> wrote:
> Q1. Is there a way I can directly insert diacritics/symbols (e.g. the pound
> symbol) into fields in catalogue records without having to copy and paste
> the diacritic/symbols from Microsoft Office Word?

Hi Joel,

This seems like a good overview: http://www.starr.net/is/type/kbh.html

If I enable the language bar in Windows and choose the International
Keyboard as default, I can enter characters like á©ðéíøµñóöä®ßþúåüæ
just by holding down the right+alt key as I type.  Á¢ÐÉÍØÇÓÓħÞÚÅÜÆ
with right+alt and right+shift.  Non-romanized languages are also
possible.

> Q2. Is there anyway possible in Evergreen to modify the MARC fields and
> subfields in System Administration so we can add our own custom tags, etc,
> like we had in our legacy system.

You can create MARC templates, but there is no GUI for this.  Letting
the system know which subfields and indicators are available for your
custom tags (for context menus in the MARC editor) is more difficult,
but also doable.  Creating or augmenting indexes to use your custom
fields is also possible, though there is no GUI for it yet.  Let us
know what you're looking for exactly and we can dig up some
documentation or describe the process.

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