[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Call number searching?

[Kathy Lussier]

Hi Trisha,

The separate call number prefix became available in 2.1.


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On 5/25/2012 9:02 PM, Trisha Cantwell Keene wrote:
> Hi Mike.
> Is this separate prefix for call numbers available for 2.09?
> Thanks,
> Trisha
>
> On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 8:34 AM, Mike Rylander <mrylander at gmail.com
> <mailto:mrylander at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 3:50 PM, Hardy, Elaine
>     <ehardy at georgialibraries.org <mailto:ehardy at georgialibraries.org>>
>     wrote:
>
>     [snip]
>
>      >
>      > Current versions of Evergreen has functionality that allows you
>     to put
>      > prefixes into a separate part of the call number. Since we don’t
>     do that, I
>      > have not tested to see how the call numbers with separate
>     pre-fixes sort in
>      > a call number  browse. They should sort with their Dewey number –
>     001.234
>      > Ref001.234 001.345, rather than 001.234 001.345 Ref001.345 for
>     example.
>
>     That's correct.
>
>      > I think there is a script that will automate the process of
>     retrospectively
>      > adding the prefix to records. Mike R. probably has info about that.
>      >
>
>     I'm not aware of such a script currently.  Every library will have
>     slightly different requirements for this, but a baseline example
>     implementation shouldn't be too difficult to create.  Something more
>     general and configurable would likely be a bigger project.
>
>     --
>     Mike Rylander
>       | Director of Research and Development
>       | Equinox Software, Inc. / Your Library's Guide to Open Source
>       | phone:  1-877-OPEN-ILS (673-6457)
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>
>      >
>      >
>      > Elaine
>      >
>      >
>      >
>      >
>      >
>      > J. Elaine Hardy
>      >
>      > PINES Bibliographic Projects and Metadata Manager
>      >
>      > Georgia Public Library Service,
>      >
>      > A Unit of the University System of Georgia
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>      >
>      >
>      > ehardy at georgialibraries.org <mailto:ehardy at georgialibraries.org>
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>      > From: open-ils-general-bounces at list.georgialibraries.org
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>      > [mailto:open-ils-general-bounces at list.georgialibraries.org
>     <mailto:open-ils-general-bounces at list.georgialibraries.org>] On
>     Behalf Of
>      > Nancy Grant
>      > Sent: Thursday, May 24, 2012 12:49 PM
>      > To: open-ils-general at list.georgialibraries.org
>     <mailto:open-ils-general at list.georgialibraries.org>
>      > Subject: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] ***SPAM*** Call number searching?
>      >
>      >
>      >
>      > One call number searching is in the quick search, but brings up a
>     shelf
>      > browser - as far as I can figure out.
>      >
>      > We have a need in K-12 libraries for call number searching
>     combined with key
>      > word searching.
>      >
>      > Patron wants poster about civil rights or "what videos do you
>     have on war?"
>      > or "I need a list of audio books appropriate for 7th graders."
>      >
>      > While the search filters help for some of this (if the item has been
>      > completely and correctly cataloged with item type), it still
>     would be handy
>      > to have call number added to the search input choices.
>      >
>      > Call number searching in the advanced classed only allows
>     text-free call
>      > numbers, eliminating all our call numbers for non-book items
>     (posters, AV,
>      > DVDs, etc)
>      >
>      > Originally we added words as the first line of the call numbers
>     because
>      > these items are located in their own sections and we do inventory
>     a section
>      > at a time, limiting the inventory list to the call numbers for
>     that section.
>      >
>      > Nancy B. Grant
>      > Balsam
>      >
>
>
>
>
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> Trisha Cantwell Keene
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> "Google can bring you back a hundred thousand answers. A librarian can
> bring you back the right one."  The Guardian (London)
>