PAPAKHI@IUBVM.BITNET (A. Ralph Papakhian) (02/13/90)
I posted this note to NOTMUS-L (NOTIS Music Library Users list) and
received only two comments. I'd like to post it to NOTIS-L to see if
NOTIS-L readers can identify additional problems. The problem is familiar:
how to deal with circulation status and linked items records for items
that are represented in NOTIS with more than one bibliographic record.
Since NOTIS K/B searching allows for searching by the record ID, the note
to OPAC readers (FOR CIRCULATION STATUS, TYPE: K=ABC1234) seems fairly
clear. On the other hand, I am still not sure what the consequences are
for "blanking" out the CIRCULATION INFORMATION NOT AVAILABLE in L*** note
for those records that do not have linked item records. What do OPAC
readers do when they encounter that "not available" note? Would they do
anything different if that note was not present on bib records that did
not have linked item records? Would the elimination (or "blanking") cause
problems? I would really appreciate hearing from sites that have
circulation in operation who also have the CIRC INFO NOT AVAIL.. note.
Thanks in advance. --Ralph Papakhian
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After much gnashing of teeth, we have come up with the following
potential solution to the "with" problem. It assumes general
availability of K/B searching at the installation:
The linked item record with barcode will be linked to the main record
(the first of the "with"s or the set for the M3's). The secondary
bibliographic records would have no linked item records, but would
have copy holdings (and volume holdings). In the copy holdings record
of these secondary bibliographic records, post a universal message:
FOR CIRCULATION STATUS, TYPE: k=abc1234 (i.e. the NOTIS record number
for the main bibliographic record with the linked item record(s))
This would also mean blanking out the familiar:
CIRCULATION INFORMATION NOT AVAILABLE IN L...
(it appears this blanking out is possible).
We have tested this (except the blanking out part) and it seems to be
workable. The user is instructed to type k=<notis id> and retrieves
the one record with circulation information.
My question to more experienced NOTIS users is: are there problems
that we are overlooking with this procedure? Once CIRC has been
implemented, is there really any need for the CIRCULATION INFORMATION
NOT AVAILABLE ... note? My impression is that a blank line is just as
useful as that note.
Comments please. We are anxious to get a resolution to this problem so
that we can procede with our work.
Many thanks in advance, and
Most sincerely, #####
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