[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] MARC for electronic resources

[Deanna Frazee]

Thanks Dan,

It makes sense.  But my problem is that the MARC record is not
displaying at all in the public catalog.  I'm assuming this is because
there is no holding record, but perhaps I'm wrong?

Deanna

-----Original Message-----
From: open-ils-general-bounces at list.georgialibraries.org
[mailto:open-ils-general-bounces at list.georgialibraries.org] On Behalf Of
Dan Scott
Sent: Tuesday, September 28, 2010 5:01 PM
To: Evergreen Discussion Group
Subject: Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] MARC for electronic resources

Hi Deanna:

On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 04:50:25PM -0500, Deanna  Frazee wrote:
> I created a mark record for an e-book to see how it would work since
we
> would like to put our e-books into the catalog.  Since there is only a
> bib record and no holding record, I can't seem to make it display.
Has
> anyone encountered this and solved it?  Or did you just create a
> holdings record and set that for display in the catalog?
> 

In the 856 field, add a $9 subfield that specifies the shortname of the
library where the electronic resource should be visible.

For example:

856 40 $u http://lwn.net $y Linux Weekly News $9 BR1

... would make it visible to people searching in a library scope that
contains BR1.

Make sense?

As for how this gets displayed, that depends on the version of Evergreen
you're running and your skins. We're doing some funky stuff in Conifer,
and all of our skin customizations are available in the ILS-Contrib
repository at http://svn.open-ils.org/trac/ILS-Contrib/wiki/Conifer
(just be careful with the open-ils.resolver calls, as those aren't going
to be applicable).