Re: question about order numbers

[Sue Brayman <Sue.Brayman@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Rita,
    Can't you just do a forced overlay?  Add to your 949 
command line "ov=.b123(etc)", so that the new bib record 
will overlay the old record that you don't want to use. 
That's what we do here, as part of our regular cataloging 
routine for purchased works (gifts don't have records to 
overlay).  We find it easy to use the copy/paste features in 
the various softwares to capture the title in CatME, paste 
it into the search box in Millennium, copy the bib record 
number, and paste it into the "949 bb *ov=.b;"  And, hey 
presto!  Not only is the record the cataloger wanted to use 
now in the system, the old bib record is gone, but the order 
record and item record(s) are attached to the new bib.

    Sue Brayman, LSS, Monographic Cataloging
    Dimond Library, UNH Campus
    Durham, N.H.  03824
    <Sue.Brayman@xxxxxxxxxx>
    http://www.library.unh.edu

Barbara Kesteloot wrote:  (and I agree with her. -- Sue B.)
> Sounds too cumbersome to me.  Too much transferring and deleting.
> 
> 
>>>>rmmagno@xxxxxxxxxx 07/16/03 04:17PM >>>
>>>
> At Viterbo Library, the Acquisitions Librarian uses OCLC's CatMe product
> to search WorldCat and to download a bibliographic and attached order
> record into Millennium.
> 
> When a cataloger gets the item in hand, we do a title search in
> Millennium.  We can then determine if the bib record is appropriate.
> Most of the records loaded by Acq look just fine. If the record looks
> incorrect or inadequate in some way, I can download a new record through
> CatMe, and transfer the existing order record to my new bib record.  I
> can choose to have the inadequate bib deleted during the process.
> 
> If Acq can't find a record in WorldCat, or chooses not to check
> WorldCat, she will create a brief bib in Millennium with key Title
> words, and attach an order record to it.  When I get the item in hand, I
> will search for the title in Millennium.  I will load a new record from
> WorldCat, transfer the order record and delete the brief bib, or create
> an original record using the brief bib created by Acq.
> 
> Rita
> 
> Rita Magno
> Assistant Director
> Viterbo University Library
> 815 S. 9th
> La Crosse, WI 54601
> 
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