[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Custom See Also

[Yamil Suarez]

Scott,

I am not a cataloger, but I work a lot with authorities in EG. I am a
little confused by your questions. Again this may be because I am not
a cataloger.

If you are referring to be able to see a "see also" entries when using
"manage authorities," I think that cannot be currently done. If
catalogers add "see" (auth tag 4xx) or "see also" (auth tag 5xx), the
data will be stored, but it is not displayed in manage authority
search results. I started creating a proof of concept code for adding
this functionality, but I don't know enough to achieve this behavior
at this point. I have hopes to someday add this to EG, with the help
of others.

If you want patrons to see a see also reference, if you take the
correct steps it will be seen with patrons that use the "browse the
catalog" search feature. Some of the steps required for that include
running a recurring script to link bibs to authority records, and
another script to link authorities to each other. Of course you will
also need to have added the relevant 5xx tag info on the record in
question.

This is all simplified, but I am hoping to help you out a bit.

Good luck,
Yamil




On Thu, Nov 5, 2015 at 12:09 PM, Scott Thomas <scott at albright.org> wrote:
> Hi,
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>    We have been on Evergreen since March, and this is the first time this
> came up. How would one add a custom See Also reference? There does not seem
> to be a way to do this under Manage Authorities. We are in a consortium so I
> will likely not do it, but am curious nonetheless. This was possible in our
> old ILS.
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> Thank you,
> Scott
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> Scott  Thomas, MLS
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> Head of Information Technologies and Technical Services
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> Scranton Public Library
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> Lackawanna County Library System
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> 2006 N. Main Ave.
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> Scranton, PA 18508
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> Ph: 570-207-2379
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Yamil Suarez, MCS
Library System Administrator/Developer

Stan Getz Library
Berklee College of Music
1140 Boylston St
Boston, MA 02215

ysuarez at berklee.edu
617-747-2617