RE: Tag number order in Millennium Silver

["Zhou, Don" <dzhou@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Steve:

I do not know if this helps.  In your holding symbols table, you define
the priority for the call numbers. When the records are brought into
your system, the loader will use that table to decide which call number
to use.  For instance, an entry:
10 > XXXX    XXXX   B0       099,090,050,086

This entry will take the 099 as your call number. If your 099 is not
empty, 050 will not be used.  When your records are already in your
system, I do not know what settings can make the records to appear the
way you want.


Don Zhou
William Mitchell College of Law
 

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From: innopac-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:innopac-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Steve Sowder
Sent: Wednesday, August 18, 2004 1:56 PM
To: innopac@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Tag number order in Millennium Silver


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



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