needed: script solution(s) for repeatedly needed "sub-searches" against monthly new-titles lists

["Mays, Antje" <maysa@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Dear Colleagues,    can anyone suggest a script solution for the following:

 

Our library uses the "featured list" for the most recently completed month's of new monograph arrivals every month.   In addition, every month we also notify library liaisons in all academic departments about new arrivals purchased with their funds.  In terms of present workflow, this means one search for the newly arrived titles every month, plus a sub-search for each of the 33 program-specific fund areas.   Each of these fund-code-driven monthly reports is then e-mailed to the library liaisons.

 

I am looking for some software solutions to this rather time-consuming manual monthly process.  A solution such as My Millenium would be perfect, if it allowed for inclusion of fund codes in the criteria...  The call-number criteria with their "LC-class spread" do not really reflect the fund-driven ordering breakdown.

 

As an alternative, I am considering the possibility of running just "the big search" every month, dumping that into a database (such as e.g. Access),  and then loading that database on the web site with the capability to search "the big monthly file" by study-area-specific fund (from a drop-down menu), and accomplishing this with a script to be written once and then re-used against subsequent new monthly arrival lists.

 

Can any of you recommend any programming ways that might help me accomplish this?   What sort of script would seem appropriate?  VisualBasic?  asp?  Something else?    Are there some solutions of "live searching" of the featured list that I am overlooking?   We're running M2Phase2.

 

I would really appreciate any ideas any of you may have.

 

Thanks in advance.

 

Best,

            antje

 

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Antje Mays

Head, Monograph & A-V Acquisitions

Dacus Library

Winthrop University

Rock Hill, South Carolina 29733, U.S.A.

phone:  001-803-323-2274

fax:      001-803-323-2215

email:  maysa@xxxxxxxxxx

http://faculty.winthrop.edu/maysa