[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] ***SPAM*** Re: Using Evergreen in a Small Specialist Library

[Yamil Suarez]

>
> One of the issues that we would have is about putting the individual  
> titles
> of pieces of music within a collection of tunes into a searchable  
> field in
> the system, to create an index of tunes - the same would also be  
> required in
> terms of our audio collection, as one of our key requirements is  
> that users
> would want to listen to different performances of the same piece,  
> and as we
> are starting from scratch it would be very useful to have that  
> capacity.
>
>


James,

I am in a similar situation, I work for a large music college in the  
US, called Berklee College of Music in Boston, Massachusetts. Our  
students definitely benefit from listening to different performances  
of the same piece. Several years ago we were able to add song title  
indexing with authority control to our current ILS by using a local  
field (Bib tag 945) and a linked authority record. Now we would like  
to index our song titles in our existing AV and musical score  
collections in Evergreen. In addition, we would like to have our song  
title auth records authority controlled.

I am not an expert in Evergreen nor do I have an MLS, so please all of  
you that know so much more than me about Evergreen on this list please  
correct me. I believe that it is relatively easy in Evergreen to set  
up keyword indexing on a custom field. So if for example, your bib  
records are using a repeatable local field to list individual song  
titles, Evergreen can relatively easily index that data and allow you  
to perform keyword searches on it.

One potential difference in my situation, is that we would like to  
also have our linked song title auth records authority controlled, but  
currently Evergreen for the most part only provides authority control  
to the standard author, subject, and series auth records. We are now  
considering contracting ESI to develop song title indexing with  
authority control in Evergreen 2.0 to our specifications. In addition  
we are considering contracting ESI to develop song title alphabetical  
browse searching features within the Evergreen 2.0 OPAC, which is an  
key goal since there is currently no support for any alphabetical  
browse searching in the OAPC. Though I have confirmed from ESI’s Mike  
Rylander that Evergreen does have “mechanisms for building A-Z  
listings, but they are not integrated into the OPAC and are focused  
instead on some specific staff workflows.”

Let me know if you want more information on our plans for indexing  
song titles in Evergreen, our old set up, or if you just want some  
ideas of what approach to take for indexing your song title data in  
your collection.

Good luck,
Yamil


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Yamil Suarez
Library System Administrator

Stan Getz Library
Berklee College of Music
1140 Boylston St
Boston, MA 02215

ysuarez at berklee.edu
617-747-2617