Message-Id: <03May13.105334mdt.119063@gateway.just.gov.ab.ca> Date: Tue, 13 May 2003 10:53:45 -0600 From: "Bernice Polvi" <Bernice.Polvi@just.gov.ab.ca> Subject: RE: [lawvoyage] Acquisitions - ordering
Hi Carol - I looked for you at EndUsers this year to thank you for all the
help you've given me with previous questions, but never saw you - did you
attend? Of course I don't know what you look like, so that was a problem.
I also inquired about a list of attendees so I could try to locate people
who have helped but they don't publish a list of delegates.
I haven't had a response back on the loose-leaf question - I suspect we
will enter a unique code in the note field of the po and see how that
works for us. If I do hear anything back I will let you know.
I played in the training database a bit this morning trying to get the
order information to show when ordering something that is already in the
catalogue - i.e. the STO issue - ordering the 2003 edition of an annotated
act. I tried not linking to the existing mfhd, and having the system
create a new mfhd (planning to suppress it), but the system linked to the
existing mfhd anyway - which is not what the manual says it will do. We
figure if wee need the info displayed in the opac, the only way to do so
for these items is to manually add a z (public note) to the 852.
When you suppress the mfhds, you cannot tell in Cataloguing which mfhds
are suppressed - do you find that you end up with a large number of
suppressed mfhds and that it becomes hard to distinguish between suppressed
and active?
Bernice
>>> CKlink@uwyo.edu 05/13/03 09:41AM >>>
Bernice: Let me know about the last one about the Looseleafs.
Yes we usually order STO when we can with one PO and 1 MFHD. However we
do suppress MFHDS when they have PO's attached. We complete the PO's
but don't delete unless there is no payment info attached. You can
relink the component with a new PO and you don't lose the history that
way. However, most STO's we don't show in the OPAC since they don't
follow the usual prediction if any, and don't get bound. Perhaps some
of the larger law libraries have an answer for you. Good luck. Voyager
is not the ideal system for law libraries.
Carol A. Klink
Head of Technical Services
University of Wyoming
College of Law Library
P.O. Box 3035
Laramie, WY 80271-3035
(307)766-5731
(307)766-4044 (fax)
-----Original Message-----
From: Bernice Polvi [mailto:Bernice.Polvi@just.gov.ab.ca]
Sent: Tuesday, May 13, 2003 9:05 AM
To: lawvoyage@law.pepperdine.edu
Subject: [lawvoyage] Acquisitions - ordering
I have been puzzling about this process, and hope someone has some
insights for me.
We are beginning to place orders in Acquisitions. As a law library we
typically have annuals that could be on standing order, but because of
fiscal considerations aren't - we order them once every 2 years or so.
Now, according to the documentation the presence of a call number in the
mfhd turns off the display of order status in the opac. So....if you let
the system create a new mfhd, you then have 2 mfhds. When the item
arrives you link the item record to the appropriate mfhd and modify the
holdings, etc. What happens with the mfhd that is linked to the po? You
can't delete it because it is linked to the po - or do you complete the
po? I am sure I read somewhere that completing the po severs the link
and you can do whatever you want with the mfhd, etc. (right/wrong?). Or
do you suppress the mfhd linked to the po and as this process continues
do you then have many suppressed mfhds in the database? How do you enter
the year on the order so that it displays in the opac? If anyone is
willing to share their procedures I would be very grateful.
We are also looking to cancel many loose-leaf subscriptions and go to
annual one-time purchases - does anyone have any suggestions on how to
identify items to generate a report of titles that should be ordered
annually? I was thinking of entering a code into the note area of the PO
as it can be searched, and therefore a report generated, but is there a
better option?
Thanks.
Bernice
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