Re: Identifying who requests materials in order records

["Felice K. Lowell" <felice.lowell@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi, Joe:

I've done this two different ways.  At the moment we have an internal 
note with the words "faculty allowance" and the faculty members name - 
e.g. faculty allowance felice lowell.  I can ask the system for all 
internal notes  - "z has" .  That way I can get all faculty request 
titles or I can ask for just a single faculty member's name.  Up until 
this year, we have also used individual faculty names as separate funds. 
I'm thinking of eliminating this method. Since we share the database 
with the university library, we have had to compromise on some of the 
coding.  In Miami, we had two free 1 digit fields that we used to 
indicate who we had ordered the material for by assigning a letter or a 
number to each selector.  I'm not sure which way I like better.  Each 
has its drawbacks.  But you can get the information you need.

Felice



Joe Reimers wrote:

> Hello,
>
> Does anyone have a means set up to identify who ordered a particular 
> title within an order record?  We're looking at tracking which faculty 
> members request which titles and base certain statistics off that.  
> Using the note field is one option, but makes generating lists and 
> reports difficult.  Is anyone else doing anything like this?
>
> TIA,
>
> Joe R.
>
> Joe Reimers
> Technology Support Assistant
> Notre Dame Law Library
> (574) 631-5994
>
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