[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] acquisitions -- cancel reasons

[Bill Erickson]

On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 09:40:53AM -0500, Bill Erickson wrote:
> Hi Shasta,
> 
> On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 10:51:43AM -0500, Shasta Brewer wrote:
> >    We are going through the preliminary tasks to implement acquisitions
> >    for our next fiscal year which starts in July.  I would like to thank
> >    the people responsible for the documentation for administrators and
> >    staff as to how acquisitions works.  It seems to be very thorough and
> >    easy to follow.  Of course I have a question.  We have the defaults
> >    loaded for cancel reasons.  I am accustomed to having a handful of
> >    reasons to cancel a title on order which include osi (out of stock
> >    indefinitely), os (out of stock), op (out of print), ppi (publication
> >    postponed indefinitely), can (cancelled), etc.  When I looked at the
> >    defaults I got a chuckle ---airline attendants--really??? Does anyone
> >    know where this list came from (not a criticism, I'm just curious)?
> >    Have other libraries used it or is it just easier to delete the entire
> >    list and start over? What do other libraries use for cancel reasons?
> >    Any advice that people can give which is not included in the
> >    documentation would be greatly appreciated. We are a consortium (SC
> >    LENDS) on release 2.1.1.  Each of our 15 library systems does their own
> >    acquisitions for their libraries.
> 
> The list comes from the EDI specification.  At the time, it was not clear
> what cancel causes Evergreen would use, but we have a better grasp of that
> now.  Here's the list actually used by Evergreen:
> 
> 1,  'invalid_isbn', 'ISBN is unrecognizable'
> 2,  'postpone', 'Title has been postponed'
> 3,  'delivered_but_lost',    'Delivered but not received; presumed lost'
> 
> Anything with an ID < 2000 is custom and/or not part of the EDI spec
> and should be kept.

Correction, any ID >= 2000 is a local/custom cancel reason.

-b

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