RE: Deleting/withdrawing items

["Todd Humble" <THUMBLE@xxxxxxxxxx>]

We have setup an additional Icode 2 called withdrawn which is also
suppressed from the public display.

If it is the last copy and the bib is not marked in the suppression
field with suppression or delete code the bib will still display in the
opac, but with bib only no items... waiting until the end of the month
can work, but if not managed well can cause the public to come and ask
where they can find such and such because they couldn't find a location
(all items suppressed).

We will sometimes suppress the bib with no items because we know a
replacement is being ordered and the bib could be reused / modified when
the replacement arrives.

Also suppressing the bib and not the items is a good option for new
release materials that you may not want the holds to accumulate on until
the release date... allowing only to unsuppress the bib and all catalogs
now show the item available and it is on the shelf ready for checkout...

Have a great day,

Todd Humble, Supervisor
NRH Public Library
North Richland Hills, TX
817-427-6822

-----Original Message-----
From: David Ruml [mailto:David.Ruml@xxxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: Tuesday, January 13, 2004 11:43 AM
To: IUG INNOPAC List
Subject: RE: Deleting/withdrawing items

We are not a consortium, so we just delete the item record at the time
the item is withdrawn.  If the item record is the last one on that bib,
we delete the bib, too.

DAVID E. RUML
Systems & Database
Carrollton Public Library
CITY OF CARROLLTON, TEXAS

972-466-4712
david.ruml@xxxxxxxxxx
www.cityofcarrollton.com/library


-----Original Message-----
From: Brenda K. Giovanneillo [mailto:brenda@xxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Tuesday, January 13, 2004 7:46 AM
To: Innopac Users Listserv
Subject: Deleting/withdrawing items


Hello all:

ALIS is a consortium of 55 public libraries in Nassau County on Long
Island, NY.

We are planning to go live on March 22.

On our current DRA system, libraries do item withdrawals as follows:

All during a given month they mark items for withdrawal.  At the end of
the month, central site runs a program that creates a report of all of
the items marked during the previous month.  The same program actually
purges the items from the database.

We would like to continue doing something similar on Millennium.

How do all of you handle withdrawals?  We were thinking that we could
set up an ICODE2 for withdrawn, but we need ICODE2 to suppress such
items from public display.  If I set up an OPACMSG for withdrawn,
libraries would have to change OPACMSG AND ICODE2 to achieve what we
want - two steps, where one works now.

Help!

Brenda Giovanneillo
ALIS Consortium Director

--- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts ---
multipart/alternative
  text/plain (text body -- kept)
  text/html
---
--
This message was distributed through the Innovative Users Group INNOPAC
list
Public replies:  INNOPAC@xxxxxxxxxx
Update your subscription options:
http://innopacusers.org/mailman/listinfo/innopac