[MinervaCats] Display value of Status Q "owns" changed

James M. Jackson Sanborn James.JacksonSanborn at maine.edu
Tue Mar 31 08:50:52 EDT 2009


Good Morning-
At last weeks Cataloging Standards Committee meeting, it was decided
that the public display value of the item status Q "owns" should be
changed to something that has some meaning for our patrons who might
encounter this status when searching for books.

Because of the varied uses of this status, the display value has been
changed from "owns" to the slightly more descriptive "unavailable".
Most uses of "owns" reflect a temporary status that removes an item
from all forms of circulation (such as a temporary library shut-down,
or items going into temporaryl/non-retrievable storage, or the
original usage, a new library being loaded into the system) so this
value seemed to cover the use cases provided.

Regards
-James
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James M Jackson Sanborn
Executive Director, Maine InfoNet
University of Maine
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Orono, Maine 04469-5784
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