[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Library Shortname

[Rogan Hamby]

This question seems so straight forward I feel like I'm missing something
but at the risk of looking a fool I'll respond.  Library short names are
static.  They're actually held in the actor.org_unit table though usually
libraries will know what their short names are as well since they show up a
lot (holds reports, routing slips, etc...).  Since they're not dynamic just
asking the libraries or getting a copy from the db table will let you know.
 They can be changed but it's not done very often unless a library system
discovered they really painted themselves into a corner with some choice
they made.



On Fri, Sep 6, 2013 at 12:42 PM, Kermit Krug
<Kermit.Krug at quality-books.com>wrote:

>  I work in the IT department for Quality Books Inc, a small press book
> vendor for public and school libraries.  We sell to a considerable number
> of libraries that use Evergreen, and we try to utilize Evergreen's SRU
> facility with an ISBN search to avoid selling titles to the library that
> they already hold.  The SRU URL syntax requires the shortname of the
> library.  Is there any surefire way to determine the library shortnames for
> the individual libraries in a consortium?****
>
> ** **
>
> Thanks!****
>



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Rogan Hamby, MLS, CCNP, MIA
Managers Headquarters Library and Reference Services,
York County Library System

"You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit
me."
-- C.S. Lewis <http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/1069006.C_S_Lewis>
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