RE: Tag number order in Millennium Silver

[Steve Sowder <sowder@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Apparently this only applies when the records are loaded. The new saved 
records have only a change in the sequence of tags. The holdings symbol 
table has not changed.

As noted, other tags are also sorted. It appears that the content of the 
tag in included in the sort. ie 650 k-1 comes after 650 1-2 even if the 
k-1 is moved to the front of the list of grades (in this case).

If a Global Update is used to swap the contents (with Millennium) will 
that change the sequence? If not, then there is no work around. The 
Milsorted records would display correctly, but then the  old character 
sorted would be wrong.

???



Steve

On Wed, 18 Aug 2004, Zhou, Don wrote:

> 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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> 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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