Tag number order in Millennium Silver

[Steve Sowder <sowder@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Has anyone else run into this?

In character based system we controlled the order of the tags in the bib 
record.  ie.  We placed the 099 tag before the 050 tag so that III would 
present the 099 call number to the user instead of the 050. (It also 
seems like there was an option somewhere that specified the order of 
preference between 050 090 and 099. Can't find it now that we are on 
Silver.)

Per III Help Desk, Millennium always saves the tags in numeric order 
(except 6xx). So, for any record saved with Millennium we now give the 
users the (unwanted) 050 call number. If you call up an old bib 
records and change _anything_ in the bib record with Millennium and save 
this sequence change happens. This is a problem for us because the 050 tag 
contains the call number for serials and the 099 contains "Shelved by 
Title".  We are not ready to change serials stacks to call number 
sequence yet.

III wants us to change the field group tag from "c" to "y" for the 050s 
so that they won't index and it will default to the 099. With several 
thousand of them, Bib Services is not exactly thrilled about this. 
Esp, since they will have to change them back when we do resequence the 
serials stacks.

The only solution they see is to not use Millennium but stay with 
character based.

[Reordering of some other tags are also causing us problems.]

Do you have any ideas for us?


Thanks in advance


Steve Sowder                      Systems Librarian
sowder@xxxxxxxxxx               Andrews University