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

[Howard Pasternack <Howard_Pasternack@xxxxxxxxxx>]

One option would be to ask Innovative to index your fund codes from the
order record in one of your public indexes, such as the keyword
index.  The indexes can contain information from fields other than
in the bib. The reindexing would cost money, but it might simplify things
for you.  -- Howard

At 10:33 AM 3/18/2003 -0500, you wrote:
> 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
>  
> ==============================
> 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