[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Multi-Valued Fields in the wild

[Kate Butler]

As far as I’m aware, our technical services department is still behaving as if the MVF do not exist -- if we get a combo set, we create 2 records, one for the DVD and one for the Blu-Ray. We have yet to start really taking advantage of the opportunity to have multiple values in these fields.

The information we’re really seeking is how this will end up looking on the staff end and on the patron end.

So, for instance, this Evergreen Indiana record has two 007 fields, which have caused it to have two format icons appear (I assume):
https://evergreen.lib.in.us/eg/opac/record/20360738?query=frozen;qtype=keyword;fi%3Asearch_format=dvd;locg=1;page=0

I was just hoping to see more examples like that, and how other libraries are taking advantage of the feature.

Kate Butler
Technology Librarian
Rodgers Memorial Library (Hudson, NH)
http://www.rodgerslibrary.org/

From: Open-ils-general [mailto:open-ils-general-bounces at list.georgialibraries.org] On Behalf Of Mike Rylander
Sent: Thursday, June 11, 2015 7:10 PM
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Subject: Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Multi-Valued Fields in the wild

Kate,

What is the use case you have in mind?

I ask because anyone on 2.6 or greater is actually already using them.  For instance, if you have a record for a DVD/Blu-Ray combo set that has two 007 fields, one for each video recording format, you can search by either (or both) and find the record.

Hope that helps!


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On Thu, Jun 11, 2015 at 2:49 PM, Kate Butler <KateButler at rodgerslibrary.org<mailto:KateButler at rodgerslibrary.org>> wrote:
Has anyone implemented Multi-Valued Fields in their catalogs?  We are considering taking a look at these later this summer and I wondered how much people had used this feature yet.  (Any words of wisdom?)

Thanks,

Kate Butler
Technology Librarian
Rodgers Memorial Library (Hudson, NH)
http://www.rodgerslibrary.org/


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