RE: indexing troubles

["Strouse, Mary M." <strouse@xxxxxxxxxx>]

We don't have GUICAT, but we do use the full screen editor in
character-based. In that, you are not prompted for the one-character
index tag.  Instead the index tag is automatically assigned based on the
MARC tag.  The correspondence between MARC tags and indexing tags is
controlled by the index rules table.  

Assuming Guicat works the same way, if you type c when prompted, instead
of 090 or 092, you're actually telling the system to use the local
non-MARC c field that Innopac provides instead of either 090 or 092.  It
might be that
c defaults to the same index as 090.

My understanding is that the Scat table is based on the Innopac
index tag (c), not the actual MARC field that is used (090 or 092 or
non-MARC "c").  If both 090's and 092's are going into a single index
(c), they will  both show up in the SCAT table.  

The only solution would be to have two different indexes (c for 090's 
and, say, e for 092's (because d is already taken) . You could then
purchase an additional SCAT table and assign each index to its own
table. Or you could choose to not include the Dewey numbers in a scat
table at all.  But as long as both types of call numbers are going into
c, they will be included in the SCAT table you have.

Hope this makes some sense,

Mary


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Hamrick, Leah (Faculty - hamricklp)
> [mailto:Leah.Hamrick@xxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Friday, March 02, 2001 2:25 PM
> To: 'innopac@xxxxxxxxxx'
> Subject: indexing troubles
> 
> 
> Our catalog is shared between the university and campus 
> school libraries
> (K-12).  I use the character-based version for cataloging and database
> management of the university collection and also for 
> monitoring the work of
> the campus school librarians, who are in the process of 
> automating their
> libraries using Guicat.  As an added complication, the 
> university library is
> in the process of reclassing from Dewey to LC, so some of the 
> bib records
> will have Dewey items and LC items together.  I'm trying to 
> duplicate a step
> which is possible in the character-based version, but not (so far) in
> Guicat.
> 
> When adding a copy/volume in the CB version, you insert a 
> field for the item
> call number.  It asks you the tag of the new field, you type 
> c for call
> number, then it allows you to specify whether the Marc tag is 
> 090 (LC) or
> 092 (Dewey).  Is there any way to do this in Guicat?  Right 
> now it forces
> the Dewey items into the LC scat tables, making for some interesting
> reports! 
> 
> Thanks in advance!
> Leah
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> Leah Powell Hamrick
> Catalog Librarian
> Beaman Library                      tel: 615-279-5803
> David Lipscomb University       fax: 615-269-1807
> 3901 Granny White Pike         
> Nashville, TN 37204-3951
> 
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