[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] How do you handle deposit collections?

[Mary Llewellyn]

Hi Elaine,

 

Can you explain what a deposit collection is? I've never heard of our
libraries using anything by that name.

 

Showing my ignorance,

 

Mary

 

 

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Hardy, Elaine
Sent: Thursday, June 07, 2012 9:05 AM
To: Evergreen Discussion Group; Evergreen Catalogers
Subject: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] How do you handle deposit collections?

 

One of the things we wanted to do when we developed Evergreen was to give
libraries better options around deposit collections. Under our vendor based
ILS, libraries had to use a prescribed list of types that became our circ
modifiers and MARC Types. One of those was DEPOSIT. PINES libraries wanted
to be able to pull stats on what format the deposit item was as well as that
it was a deposit item. In the old ILS they couldn't do this, so the
developers conceived the idea of a deposit flag that was separate from the
circ mod and MARC Type yet could have circ policy implications as well.
Notably those items with a deposit flag of yes could not be held outside the
lib system. With the change in how circulation policies are administered in
more recent versions of Evergreen, that flag was taken out of consideration
and our libraries cannot manage their deposit collections in their customary
manner. As you can imagine, they are not happy.

 

We may open a bug report or consider other development answers; but, as we
contemplate how we would like to approach a solution we are wondering how
other libraries handle deposit collections.  Do your deposit collections
circulate differently than other items, particularly with holds? Do you
assign a circ modifier? If so, what about stats for formats? 

 

Elaine 

 

 

J. Elaine Hardy

PINES Bibliographic Projects and Metadata Manager

Georgia Public Library Service,

A Unit of the University System of Georgia

1800 Century Place, Suite 150

Atlanta, Ga. 30345-4304

404.235-7128

404.235-7201, fax

 

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