Re: Create Lists

["Candace Lebel" <clebel@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Lisa,

You might be referring to the discussion I started about this time last year.
Check the archives for my name.

We had 40 review files and were adding 40 more.  Using what I learned from
others, and playing with the numbers in Excel, I ended up with two schemes to
choose from:

50    @     1,000    =    50,000
10    @     5,000    =    50,000
  5    @   10,000    =    50,000
  6    @   25,000    =  150,000
  5    @   50,000    =  250,000
  2    @ 100,000    =  200,000
  2    @ 250,000    =  500,000
80 files totaling 1,250,000

OR

35    @        1,000    =      35,000
16    @        2,500    =      40,000
10    @        5,000    =      50,000
  5    @      10,000    =      50,000
  5    @      25,000    =    125,000
  5    @      50,000    =    250,000
  2    @    100,000    =    200,000
  2    @    250,000    =    500,000
80 files totaling 1,250,000

I wanted III to set it up as the latter but it mistakenly got conveyed that we
wanted the former.  I didn't feel like paying extra to have it reshuffled.
Remember that the total number of files must be in multiples of 40 and that the
corresponding total number of records must be in likewise multiples of 625,000.
And the smallest allocation file size allowed is 1,000.

Hope this helps.

-Candace

Lisa Weber wrote:

>         Hi,
>         A year or so ago (or perhaps longer) there was a brief discussion on
> how to best setup create lists.  The discussion was about cutting up the
> lists to suit your own organization.  In other words instead of say 6 25000
> create lists they were divided into several smaller ones and as long as it
> didn't exceed some magic number (I really wish I could remember what it was)
> there wouldn't be any problems.  I checked the archives but couldn't find
> anything that related to that earlier message.
>
>         We are considering having our lists divided into smaller ones.  Does
> anyone have any ideas on how to divide the lists up, or things to beware of,
> general good advice, etc?
>
>       Thanks,
>
>       Mary Duffy
>       Head, Library Information Systems
>       Univ. of Texas at El Paso Library
>       El Paso, TX 79968-0582
>       Tel: (915) 747-6739
>       EMAIL: mduffy@xxxxxxxxxx

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