[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Records displaying in the catalog

[Jason Etheridge]

On Sun, Mar 25, 2012 at 9:32 AM, Trisha Cantwell Keene
<tcantwell at coa.edu> wrote:
> New to Evergreen and as we contemplate converting our records I am curious
> about how people handle ebook and serial records which don't need barcodes.
> Is it possible to add records to the catalog and have them display to the
> public without adding items?

The "transcendent" route mentioned in this thread is one option, but
another is to use org targeted 856 tags, where subfield 9 contains a
code representing the specific library or libraries owning the
resource.  Such records would behave like records with items when it
comes to visibility and search scoping.

Serials is a different thing altogether, and a bit in flux at the
moment.  You have several options to choose from there, including
encoding your data as MFHD (an older method), or using a UI to manage
dedicated tables in the database.

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