Comment 1 for bug 1048822

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Josh Stompro (u-launchpad-stompro-org) wrote :

reporter.super_simple_record uses only the 245a for the title.

I'm wondering if the best approach to addressing this is to expand the title to include subfield p and n to include things like "Season 1".

Or should there be a new reporter.super_simple_record field that contains that info? Something like title_np. So that the behavior of the title field doesn't change.

I would rather just have one title field, but there may be good reasons not to change how it behaves.

Examples: Here are some examples of records that are difficult to identify from the current simplified holds list because there are many titles with the same 245a. Staff currently have to compare barcodes which takes extra time, or look up the title first in the staff client and make a note on the list.

"kung Fu Panda, legends of awesomeness. The Scorpion sting"
http://egcatalog.larl.org/eg/opac/record/158141?expand=marchtml#marchtml
"Kung Fu Panda, legends of awesomeness. Good croc, bad croc"
http://egcatalog.larl.org/eg/opac/record/154400?expand=marchtml#marchtml

Outside of the simplified pull list, I've found that I often need to pull in the 245 n or p in other reports that go out to staff so they know which specific title the customer wanted, so fixing this would help out in many other reports.

Josh