[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] MARC for electronic resources

[Melissa Belvadi]

I recommend you seriously consider using the "source" option that Dan
listed. 
To give you more detail, every bib record has attached to it a field
called the "source". 
There's a table that lists all of the possible sources (you can add
more as needed), and for each one, whether it is "transcendent" or not.

Transcendent simply means that the record will be visible in the OPAC
without any items attached and even if you haven't added anything extra
to the 856. 
So, for instance, for our ebooks, we have a special "source" which is
set to transcendent, and when we add ebook records, we change the source
from the default to this other source. 
I just find this a cleaner option from a cataloguing perspective than
adding a subfield to the 856. 

Very recently, we (UPEI) had the wonderful Dan Scott add two things to
make this much easier - the ability to modify the source in the staff
client on a per-record basis, and a fix to the Vandeley (Batch import)
so that the "source" pulldown there actually worked. 

Dan, is that code out there for Mary to use in her system yet? 

FYI, the table in question is config.bib_source for your SQL people,
and the bib field that references it is biblio.record_entry.source. 

Melissa Belvadi 




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Melissa Belvadi
Emerging Technologies & Metadata Librarian
University of Prince Edward Island
mbelvadi at upei.ca
902-566-0581 



>>> On 9/29/2010 at 11:02 AM, in message <4CA34A0A.D6C : 92 : 60780>,
Mary Llewellyn <mllewell at biblio.org> wrote:


Ah, that's disappointing. The display of multiple 856s will be ugly and
confusing to the library patrons.

Thanks for the reply.

Mary


At 08:58 AM 9/29/2010, you wrote:



Quoting Mary Llewellyn <mllewell at biblio.org>:




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?  

You can add multiple 856 tags. IIRC they are repeatable.

Also, in checking the code, it looks like you're expected to add 
multiple 856s, one for each holding library.

Also, in 2.0 at least, the shortname can go in a subfield 9, w, or n.

HtH,
Jason Stephenson
Merrimack Valley Library Consortium







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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.   

 

Mary Llewellyn

Mary Llewellyn
Database Manager
Bibliomation, Inc.
Middlebury, CT  

mllewell at biblio.org 
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