| 2022-10-04 19:01:20 |
Mary Llewellyn |
description |
We have our catalogers use CONS as their search library so they can find all records, with and without items, when they need to catalog their own items.
However, the public services staff use their own library as a search library, and that's where we run into staff confusion.
When they run into a bib record with no items, they report that to us as an error.
When they are searching in their own library, they expect to only retrieve records with their items.
Our acq staff members are adding an "on order" copy to the records when they activate their purchase orders, so there's no need for them to place holds on empty bibs. The display of empty bibs display in a library-based search instead of CONS serves no useful purpose to us.
I recognize that other Evergreen sites don't see this as a problem, preferring to use color coding to identify empty bibs in searches like this. But we had color coding when we first migrated to Evergreen, and it drew many complaints. We'd rather not go back to that approach.
We'd like to see a library setting that suppresses display of the empty bibs when using an individual library as the search library. We'd still want to see them when using CONS as the search library. |
We have our catalogers use CONS as their search library so they can find all records, with and without items, when they need to catalog their own items.
However, the public services staff use their own library as a search library, and that's where we run into staff confusion.
When they run into a bib record with no items, they report that to us as an error.
When they are searching in their own library, they expect to only retrieve records with their items.
Our acq staff members are adding an "on order" copy to the records when they activate their purchase orders, so there's no need for them to place holds on empty bibs. The display of empty bibs in a library-based search instead of CONS serves no useful purpose to us.
I recognize that other Evergreen sites don't see this as a problem, preferring to use color coding to identify empty bibs in searches like this. But we had color coding when we first migrated to Evergreen, and it drew many complaints. We'd rather not go back to that approach.
We'd like to see a library setting that suppresses display of the empty bibs when using an individual library as the search library. We'd still want to see them when using CONS as the search library. |
|
