[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] subscription summary screen

[David Fiander]

That's what I suspected. In this situation, the serials stuff isn't doing
anything more than dumping the existing text strings that describe your
holdings. That code has changed a lot since I last poked at it, but I
suspect that changing the way text holdings records are displayed so that
they're nicer will require patching the code in the serials module.

- David

On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 12:31, Tara Robertson <
information.detective at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hey David--thanks!
>
> I don't think I explained things clearly enough. This is an issue with
> summary holdings that we (actually the amazing Mark Bucholtz) migrated
> into Evergreen.
>
> Here's how Dwell displays in Horizon:
>
> http://jupiter.eciad.ca/ipac20/ipac.jsp?session=1306X1347H614.1223046&profile=lib&uri=link=3100006~!294353~!3100001~!3100002&aspect=subtab43&menu=search&ri=1&source=~!emily&term=Dwell.&index=ALTITLE
>
> Each bit of the run displays on separate lines. There are no MFHD
> statements for what was migrated from Horizon.
>
> Maybe Mark can chime in with what he's tried to make the holdings summary
> more readable.
>
> tara
>
>
>
> On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 5:29 AM, David Fiander <david at fiander.info> wrote:
>
>> 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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