[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] subscription summary screen

[David Fiander]

Your first example, "Dwell", is odd. It should be compressed down to

v. 3 no. 8 (Sep 2003), v. 3 no. 9 (Oct 2003) missing, v. 4 no. 2 (Nov/Dec
2003) -  v. 5 no. 5 (Apr/May 2005), v. 5 no. 6 (Jun 2005) missing, v. 5 no.
7 (Jul/Aug 2005) - v. 6 no. 5 (May 2006), v. 6 no. 6 (Jun 2006) missing, v.
6 no. 7 (July 2006) -  v. 10 no. 10 (October 2010), v. 11 no. 1 (November
2010) - v. 11 no. 6 (May 2011)

at least. Without seeing the MFHD statements for this journal, I can't tell
if there's a problem with the display code, or if that's just what was
migrated from the old catalogue.

Are the issues marked as "missing" issues that you might have received in
the past but are now gone, or did you never have them? Either way, if you
have given up on them, you could remove the missing issues, simplifying
again to a list that describes just what you have:

v. 3 no. 8 (Sep 2003), v. 4 no. 2 (Nov/Dec 2003) -  v. 5 no. 5 (Apr/May
2005), v. 5 no. 7 (Jul/Aug 2005) - v. 6 no. 5 (May 2006), v. 6 no. 7 (July
2006) -  v. 10 no. 10 (October 2010), v. 11 no. 1 (November 2010) - v. 11
no. 6 (May 2011)

Unfortunately, the NISO standard for displaying serials holdings is VERY
detailed and requires close reading to figure out if the particular issue
you want is available or not. On the plus side, at least it's possible to
tell from the catalogue holdings statement whether it's worth going to the
stacks or not. MPOW uses an older standard, which only indicates that a
volume in incomplete, so one doesn't know if the issue one wants is
available without actually going into the stacks.

On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 15:39, Tara Robertson <
information.detective at gmail.com> wrote:

> I'm wondering if any other libraries who are using serials, or have
> migrated serials holdings into Evergreen have figured out a way to make the
> holdings summary look OK.
>
> We are now on Sitka (yay!) and this would help us out a lot.
>
> Here's two examples in our catalogue, as you can see it's pretty hard to
> read:
>
>
> http://catalogue.bclibraries.ca/opac/en-CA/skin/BVAVSA/xml/rdetail.xml?r=101107854&ol=610&t=dwell&tp=title&l=610&d=2&hc=7&rt=keyword
>
>
> http://catalogue.bclibraries.ca/opac/en-CA/skin/BVAVSA/xml/rdetail.xml?r=103448772&ol=610&t=artforum&tp=title&l=610&d=2&hc=3&rt=keyword
>
> BTW--thanks KCLS for sharing your PAC skin, and James Fournie (Sitka) for
> doing a whole bunch of work so that we can pilot it.
>
> Cheers,
> Tara
> Emily Carr University of Art + Design
>
>
> On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 6:54 AM, Mark Bucholtz (Project Sitka) <
> mbucholtz at sitka.bclibraries.ca> wrote:
>
>> Hi There
>>
>> When you receive issues in Serials the software builds the subscription
>> summary screen by adding the new volume information from left to right with
>> no line breaks (see attached screenprint). If there are lots of entries it
>> becomes difficult to read.
>>
>> Is there any way to get the volume information to display on separate
>> lines when there are breaks in the subscription run?
>>
>> Thanks in advance.
>>
>> Mark Bucholtz
>>
>>
>
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