One of the things we wanted to do when we developed Evergreen was to give libraries better options around deposit collections. Under our vendor based ILS, libraries had to use a prescribed list of types that became our circ modifiers and MARC Types. One of those was DEPOSIT. PINES libraries wanted to be able to pull stats on what format the deposit item was as well as that it was a deposit item. In the old ILS they couldn't do this, so the developers conceived the idea of a deposit flag that was separate from the circ mod and MARC Type yet could have circ policy implications as well. Notably those items with a deposit flag of yes could not be held outside the lib system. With the change in how circulation policies are administered in more recent versions of Evergreen, that flag was taken out of consideration and our libraries cannot manage their deposit collections in their customary manner. As you can imagine, they are not happy.
We may open a bug report or consider other development answers; but, as we contemplate how we would like to approach a solution we are wondering how other libraries handle deposit collections. Do your deposit collections circulate differently than other items, particularly with holds? Do you assign a circ modifier? If so, what about stats for formats? Elaine J. Elaine Hardy PINES Bibliographic Projects and Metadata Manager Georgia Public Library Service, A Unit of the University System of Georgia 1800 Century Place, Suite 150 Atlanta, Ga. 30345-4304 404.235-7128 404.235-7201, fax <mailto:[email protected]> [email protected] <http://www.georgialibraries.org/> www.georgialibraries.org <http://www.georgialibraries.org/pines/> http://www.georgialibraries.org/pines/
