[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Holds Queue
Many times, when patrons put holds on items, they want to know where they are in the Holds Queue. In Staff Client we can go to View Holds to see where they are on the list. Is there some way for patrons to see what position they are in the Holds Queue from their account in the OPAC? James Wagner Technical Services Co-ordinator Lincoln Public Library Vineland ON 905-562-5711 wag...@lincoln.library.on.ca
Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Holds Queue
On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 9:26 AM, James Wagner wag...@lincoln.library.on.ca wrote: Many times, when patrons put holds on items, they want to know where they are in the Holds Queue. In Staff Client we can go to View Holds to see where they are on the list. Is there some way for patrons to see what position they are in the Holds Queue from their account in the OPAC? In EG 2.0 (currently in alpha testing), there is a Queue Position column for various holds lists in the staff client. It's not in the default skin for the OPAC, though it probably wouldn't be difficult to add. However, unless the Holds: FIFO setting is in effect (where FIFO stands for First-In, First-Out), the Queue Position is a bit of a fiction (an estimate), since there can be effectively multiple hold queues, where holds with a given pickup lib get dibs on items found at or coming into that pickup lib. There's also a Top of Queue (or Cut-In-Line) field on holds, which if set to true, gives such holds priority over its peers (effectively making yet another queue). Staff can also directly modify the Request Date on a hold, which effectively re-orders the holds queue. Without FIFO, the answer to the question Am I next in line? isn't straightforward, and even then, it can be affected by staff. -- Jason Etheridge | VP, Tactical Development | Equinox Software, Inc. / Your Library's Guide to Open Source | phone: 1-877-OPEN-ILS (673-6457) | email: ja...@esilibrary.com | web: http://www.esilibrary.com
[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] ***SPAM*** Re: Wrong cover attached to record
Hi Deanna, My best guess is that maybe the order of the 020 fields makes a difference on how the book cover appears. We've encountered this problem before on our system where the first 020 field is used to generate a book jacket but it might be an incorrect one. All subsequent ones are ignored it seems. If you swap the 020 fields used in your example, that should correct the problem. -- Ben On 10/01/2010 12:28 PM, Deanna Frazee wrote: We've noticed that the cover displayed in our OPAC for the book Erak's Ransom by John Flanagan is wildly incorrect. Instead of showing the cover of one of the Ranger's Apprentice novels, it shows the children's book The Runaway Mummy. You can see it in our catalog at http://portal.ci.killeen.tx.us/opac/en-US/skin/craftsman/xml/rdetail.xml?r=82501t=erak's%20ransomtp=keywordd=0hc=1rt=keyword http://portal.ci.killeen.tx.us/opac/en-US/skin/craftsman/xml/rdetail.xml?r=82501t=erak%27s%20ransomtp=keywordd=0hc=1rt=keyword Any suggestions on how we go about fixing this? Thanks, Deanna Frazee Killeen City Library System 205 E. Church Ave. Killeen, TX 76541 254-501-8995 dfra...@ci.killeen.tx.us -- Benjamin Shum Open Source Software Coordinator Bibliomation, Inc. 32 Crest Road Middlebury, CT 06762 203-577-4070, ext. 113
[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] ***SPAM*** RE: ***SPAM*** Re: Wrong cover attached to record
Thanks Ben, that did the trick! Deanna From: open-ils-general-boun...@list.georgialibraries.org [mailto:open-ils-general-boun...@list.georgialibraries.org] On Behalf Of Ben Shum Sent: Friday, October 01, 2010 11:32 AM To: Evergreen Discussion Group Subject: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] ***SPAM*** Re: Wrong cover attached to record Hi Deanna, My best guess is that maybe the order of the 020 fields makes a difference on how the book cover appears. We've encountered this problem before on our system where the first 020 field is used to generate a book jacket but it might be an incorrect one. All subsequent ones are ignored it seems. If you swap the 020 fields used in your example, that should correct the problem. -- Ben On 10/01/2010 12:28 PM, Deanna Frazee wrote: We've noticed that the cover displayed in our OPAC for the book Erak's Ransom by John Flanagan is wildly incorrect. Instead of showing the cover of one of the Ranger's Apprentice novels, it shows the children's book The Runaway Mummy. You can see it in our catalog at http://portal.ci.killeen.tx.us/opac/en-US/skin/craftsman/xml/rdetail.xml ?r=82501t=erak's%20ransomtp=keywordd=0hc=1rt=keyword http://portal.ci.killeen.tx.us/opac/en-US/skin/craftsman/xml/rdetail.xm l?r=82501t=erak%27s%20ransomtp=keywordd=0hc=1rt=keyword Any suggestions on how we go about fixing this? Thanks, Deanna Frazee Killeen City Library System 205 E. Church Ave. Killeen, TX 76541 254-501-8995 dfra...@ci.killeen.tx.us -- Benjamin Shum Open Source Software Coordinator Bibliomation, Inc. 32 Crest Road Middlebury, CT 06762 203-577-4070, ext. 113
[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] ***SPAM*** Re: Using Evergreen in a Small Specialist Library
One of the issues that we would have is about putting the individual titles of pieces of music within a collection of tunes into a searchable field in the system, to create an index of tunes - the same would also be required in terms of our audio collection, as one of our key requirements is that users would want to listen to different performances of the same piece, and as we are starting from scratch it would be very useful to have that capacity. James, I am in a similar situation, I work for a large music college in the US, called Berklee College of Music in Boston, Massachusetts. Our students definitely benefit from listening to different performances of the same piece. Several years ago we were able to add song title indexing with authority control to our current ILS by using a local field (Bib tag 945) and a linked authority record. Now we would like to index our song titles in our existing AV and musical score collections in Evergreen. In addition, we would like to have our song title auth records authority controlled. I am not an expert in Evergreen nor do I have an MLS, so please all of you that know so much more than me about Evergreen on this list please correct me. I believe that it is relatively easy in Evergreen to set up keyword indexing on a custom field. So if for example, your bib records are using a repeatable local field to list individual song titles, Evergreen can relatively easily index that data and allow you to perform keyword searches on it. One potential difference in my situation, is that we would like to also have our linked song title auth records authority controlled, but currently Evergreen for the most part only provides authority control to the standard author, subject, and series auth records. We are now considering contracting ESI to develop song title indexing with authority control in Evergreen 2.0 to our specifications. In addition we are considering contracting ESI to develop song title alphabetical browse searching features within the Evergreen 2.0 OPAC, which is an key goal since there is currently no support for any alphabetical browse searching in the OAPC. Though I have confirmed from ESI’s Mike Rylander that Evergreen does have “mechanisms for building A-Z listings, but they are not integrated into the OPAC and are focused instead on some specific staff workflows.” Let me know if you want more information on our plans for indexing song titles in Evergreen, our old set up, or if you just want some ideas of what approach to take for indexing your song title data in your collection. Good luck, Yamil Yamil Suarez Library System Administrator Stan Getz Library Berklee College of Music 1140 Boylston St Boston, MA 02215 ysua...@berklee.edu 617-747-2617
Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Wrong cover attached to record
It wasn't. Apparently one of the catalogers either typed in the wrong ISBN or else used a copy record with incorrect information. Deanna -Original Message- From: open-ils-general-boun...@list.georgialibraries.org [mailto:open-ils-general-boun...@list.georgialibraries.org] On Behalf Of Dan Scott Sent: Friday, October 01, 2010 11:34 AM To: Evergreen Discussion Group Subject: Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Wrong cover attached to record On Fri, Oct 01, 2010 at 11:28:08AM -0500, Deanna Frazee wrote: We've noticed that the cover displayed in our OPAC for the book Erak's Ransom by John Flanagan is wildly incorrect. Instead of showing the cover of one of the Ranger's Apprentice novels, it shows the children's book The Runaway Mummy. You can see it in our catalog at http://portal.ci.killeen.tx.us/opac/en-US/skin/craftsman/xml/rdetail.xml ?r=82501t=erak's%20ransomtp=keywordd=0hc=1rt=keyword Any suggestions on how we go about fixing this? Taking the ISBN from your MARC record and dropping it into Google shows a ton of hits for The Runaway Mummy. Are you sure the ISBN in your MARC record is correct?
