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

2015-06-11 Thread Kate Butler 
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/

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

2015-06-11 Thread Ruth Frasur 
Evergreen Indiana has.


On Thu, Jun 11, 2015 at 2:49 PM, Kate Butler 
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/
>
>
>



-- 
Ruth Frasur
Director of the Historic(ally Awesome) Hagerstown - Jefferson Township
Library
10 W. College Street in Hagerstown, Indiana (47346)
p (765) 489-5632; f (765) 489-5808

Our Kickin' Website   Our Rockin' Facebook
Page   and Stuff I've Read

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

2015-06-11 Thread Yamil Suarez 
Kate,

Thanks for asking this question. I am curious too.

Yamil



On Thu, Jun 11, 2015 at 2:56 PM, Ruth Frasur
 wrote:
> Evergreen Indiana has.
>
>
> On Thu, Jun 11, 2015 at 2:49 PM, Kate Butler 
> 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/
>>
>>
>
>
>
>
> --
> Ruth Frasur
> Director of the Historic(ally Awesome) Hagerstown - Jefferson Township
> Library
> 10 W. College Street in Hagerstown, Indiana (47346)
> p (765) 489-5632; f (765) 489-5808
>
> Our Kickin' Website  Our Rockin' Facebook Page  and Stuff I've Read
>



-- 





Yamil Suarez, MCS
Library System Administrator/Developer

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

ysua...@berklee.edu
617-747-2617

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

2015-06-11 Thread Mike Rylander 
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!


--
Mike Rylander
 | President
 | Equinox Software, Inc. / The Open Source Experts
 | phone:  1-877-OPEN-ILS (673-6457)
 | email:  mi...@esilibrary.com
 | web:  http://www.esilibrary.com


On Thu, Jun 11, 2015 at 2:49 PM, Kate Butler 
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/
>
>
>

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

2015-06-17 Thread Yamil Suarez 
Mike,

I can't speak for Kate, but in my situation my EG production server is
on 2.7, but it is configured more like a EG 2.5 when it comes to how
format icons are picked and how "formats" are filtered. This was done
right after we upgraded from 2.5.x to 2.6.x because initially the
icons and format filtering was acting weird. I have not had a chance
to research how to switch my production system to use the newer 2.6
features for icon formas or filtering. Though I hope to have it all
figured out this summer.

Hope this helps someone,
Yamil




On Thu, Jun 11, 2015 at 7:10 PM, Mike Rylander  wrote:
> 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!
>
>
> --
> Mike Rylander
>  | President
>  | Equinox Software, Inc. / The Open Source Experts
>  | phone:  1-877-OPEN-ILS (673-6457)
>  | email:  mi...@esilibrary.com
>  | web:  http://www.esilibrary.com
>
>
> On Thu, Jun 11, 2015 at 2:49 PM, Kate Butler 
> 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/
>>
>>
>
>



-- 





Yamil Suarez, MCS
Library System Administrator/Developer

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

ysua...@berklee.edu
617-747-2617

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

2015-06-17 Thread 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-boun...@list.georgialibraries.org] On Behalf Of Mike 
Rylander
Sent: Thursday, June 11, 2015 7:10 PM
To: Evergreen Discussion Group
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!


--
Mike Rylander
 | President
 | Equinox Software, Inc. / The Open Source Experts
 | phone:  1-877-OPEN-ILS (673-6457)
 | email:  mi...@esilibrary.com<mailto:mi...@esilibrary.com>
 | web:  http://www.esilibrary.com


On Thu, Jun 11, 2015 at 2:49 PM, Kate Butler 
mailto:katebut...@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/

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

2015-06-17 Thread Geoff Sams 
For my library, we’ve chosen to utilize the parts system to distinguish between 
the different types of materials within a MVF record.  So for instance on a 
Blu-ray/DVD combo pack we will have a part that is for DVD and a part for the 
blu-ray.  This has seemed to work out well enough for us so far, and I’m hoping 
that I can get the rest of the consortium to adopt a similar plan of action for 
items of this nature.

There are however instances where this can be a bit misleading.  There was an 
item recently that was an Audiobook on CD that came with a disc of supplemental 
PDF files.  It showed up as “Audiobook on CD/ eBook” in the catalog.  This is a 
case where I would opt to remove the secondary value.  I believe that was what 
we ultimately did because I do believe it would have caused some non-small 
amount of confusion for the patron.

I believe that it is worth looking at the possibilities and making some 
decisions based on what works with your patronage in general.  Thankfully, as 
tends to be the case with a lot of these requests that get implemented (because 
the devs rock!), they can be tweaked quite effectively to limit how the types 
will show up in your catalog.  Otherwise, you can make minor changes to the 
marc records to fit your needs.

My experience is limited as we upgraded to 2.7.3 in February from 2.3.5.  There 
were a lot of changes to adapt to, and this was one we felt more or less safe 
letting sit in the background until we could really look things over well and 
make good decisions on.  This is my take on what I’ve seen so far.

If you have some more specific questions I’d be happy to answer them!

Thanks,
Geoff Sams
Library Manager
Roanoke Public Library

From: Open-ils-general 
[mailto:open-ils-general-boun...@list.georgialibraries.org] On Behalf Of Kate 
Butler
Sent: Wednesday, June 17, 2015 3:31 PM
To: Evergreen Discussion Group
Subject: Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Multi-Valued Fields in the wild

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-boun...@list.georgialibraries.org] On Behalf Of Mike 
Rylander
Sent: Thursday, June 11, 2015 7:10 PM
To: Evergreen Discussion Group
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!


--
Mike Rylander
 | President
 | Equinox Software, Inc. / The Open Source Experts
 | phone:  1-877-OPEN-ILS (673-6457)
 | email:  mi...@esilibrary.com<mailto:mi...@esilibrary.com>
 | web:  http://www.esilibrary.com


On Thu, Jun 11, 2015 at 2:49 PM, Kate Butler 
mailto:katebut...@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/