[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] MARC for electronic resources

[Mary Llewellyn]

Jumping in here with a question about adding subfield 9. If we have more than one library subscribed to an e-resource, can we add multiple subfields 9 to a single 856 to display the bib in each of those libraries' public catalogs?


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On Sep 28, 2010, at 9:30 PM, Dan Scott <dan at coffeecode.net> wrote:

> On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 05:13:03PM -0500, Deanna  Frazee wrote:
>> 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?
> 
> There are three ways a record can be made visible in the public
> catalogue:
>  * Set the record source to a transcendent source
>  * Add a copy with a visible status in a visible copy location in a
>    visible library
>  * (As of 1.6) add an 856, first indicator 4, second indicator 0,
>    with a $9 subfield with a value matching a shortname in your
>    search scope
> 
> If your record isn't displaying in the public catalog, and you have an
> 856 40 $9 SHORTNAME in the record, then perhaps something else is wrong
> with the record or your configuration. At this point, without a concrete
> example, there's not much I can do to help diagnose the problem further.