[MinervaCats] [MINERVA-L] Scope update

[Ulla Messerschmidt]

Hi Jon,

Thank you for all your hard work on this! 
Just want to make sure I understand this correctly. 
Tomorrow we will start to use tmlj instead of tml as the bib location for
our children's 
materials, -- or do we use both?

Ulla
TML



"Forest, Jon" <Jon.Forest at maine.gov> writes:


>Yes.  Sorry, I should have made this clearer:  for those libraries who
>have a children's scope, the bib location for juvenile titles has
>changed.  For example lpl should use lplj.  Sppj is the only one I think
>I need to clarify, all other are your three letter code, plus j.  This
>is due to the way that scope menus are setup, each must include a bib
>location in addition to item locations.  Because juvenile & adult
>locations were included in the original bib location codes (lpl), we had
>to separate out juvenile and give them a new bib location (lplj).
>Otherwise, the bib displays for adult titles (without item holdings)
>would continue to appear in all search results for the kids scope.
>
>The implementation manager at III told me he will be in early tomorrow
>and will work on this first thing.  I just sent him an updated list of
>all the new bib locations.  Once he fixes the scopes and re-enables
>them, it might be a good idea to verify that all of your
>children's/juvenile/YA locations are actually showing up in OPAC
>searches.  The list of item locations is at Admin > Parameter >
>General
>> Branches.  If you need permission to view that, let me know.  If you
>find any omissions, please let me know, and I will get it fixed before
>we close the ticket.
>
>Again, I want to thank everyone for their patience as we have worked
>through this.  
>
>
>Jon Forest
>Library Automation Manager
>Maine InfoNet
>http://www.maine.gov/infonet
>jon.forest at maine.gov
>207-557-0072
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Karen Jones [mailto:kjones at ci.lewiston.me.us] 
>Sent: Sunday, January 27, 2008 7:00 PM
>To: MINERVA-L at LISTS.MAINE.EDU; Forest, Jon
>Subject: Re: [MINERVA-L] Scope update
>
>Does this mean that every time we add a Children's item to the database
>we should use the new bib location code (e.g. lplj plus lpl)?  
>Thanks for your clarification.
>Karen
> 
> 
> 
>Karen N. Jones      
>Technical Services Librarian
>Lewiston Public Library
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>>>> "Forest, Jon" <Jon.Forest at MAINE.GOV>
>1/25/2008 7:39 PM >>>
>I finally got through to a manager in the implementation group at III,
>which is responsible for the scope setup.  In the short term, the new
>scopes have been suppressed so they not longer appear in the OPAC &
>therefore will not be available to confuse patrons over the weekend.  
>
>The whole problem is due to the fact that they never told me that a
>scope requires that a bib location be included.  I gave them the
>existing bib locations, those include all adult & juvenile materials,
>which is the cause of the problems we've all been seeing.  The
>alternative is to create new bib locations which will be associated with
>only those item locations included in the juvenile scopes.  I'll need to
>create those new bib locations and update a table on the server that
>links the bib & item locations.  An automatic link maintenance program
>that runs overnight should update all associated bib records.  First
>thing Monday morning, III will be able to update the scope menus again &
>unsuppress them, and then hopefully all this will be behind us.  
>
>Here are the new bib location codes I'll be creating:
>aplj, bflj, bmlj, cmlj, fmlj, gplj, hobj, jmlj, litj, lplj, ludj, norj,
>oplj, otpj, pflj, pitj, ricj, rocj, rplj, sjcj, sppj, tmlj, tplj, unij,
>wlkj, warj, welj, wplj
>
>Jon Forest
>Library Automation Manager
>Maine InfoNet
>http://www.maine.gov/infonet
>jon.forest at maine.gov
>207-557-0072
>
>
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Ulla Messerschmidt

Technical Services Librarian

Thomas Memorial Library

6 Scott Dyer Road

Cape Elizabeth, ME 04107

(207) 767-2273 ext, 290

umesserschmidt at thomas.lib.me.us



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