Re: Duplicate checking in Millennium

["Jean Harden" <JHARDEN at library dot unt dot edu>]

It's irritating to me. Yes, in some circumstances, checking duplicates
is helpful. In most, however, it is not.

The way the system is set up here, it always checks for duplicates. No
dialog box. I'd love to see even that much flexibility.

In the telnet catalog, acquisitions would be told of duplicates when
entering new records - useful. Cataloging would be told of duplicate
barcodes or duplicate call numbers - also useful. When entering new
records in the Cataloging module, one could choose to be told of
duplicates or not, but you only needed to make the choice once per
session. That was a reasonable compromise. I would love to see similar
functionality in Millennium.



Jean Harden, Music Catalog Librarian
Libraries
University of North Texas
PO Box 305190
Denton, TX  76203-5190
(940) 565-2860
jharden at library dot unt dot edu


>>> Oleg dot Kreymer at metmuseum dot org 12/22/2004 11:03:19 AM >>>
The duplicate checking business in Millennium seems to be a major
design flow.  It's one of those things that just make me want to switch
to a different library system.  Duplicate checking is certainly useful
for new records, but editing records is a different issue.  There has to
be a way to differentiate between these two functions (dup. checking for
new recs and dup. checking for existing recs), but, according to
Innovative, there isn't one.
Does anyone else find it irritating?  Would this be a popular
enhancement request?
 
Happy Holidays!

Oleg Kreymer 
Systems Librarian 
T.J. Watson Library 
The Metropolitan Museum of Art 
1000 Fifth Avenue 
New York, NY 10028 
(212) 570-3841 

Date: Wed, 5 May 2004 15:42:52 -0700 
From: "Laurie Willis" < Laurie dot Willis at xxxxxxxxxx
<mailto:Laurie.Willis%40hayward-ca.gov> > 
Subject: RE: Duplicate barcode checking 
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A related question - How do you get Millennium to stop asking if you
want to perform duplicate checking? Is it possible? I'd like to just
tell it once instead of always getting a dialog box that I have to
answer.

Laurie Willis
Hayward Public Library
835 C Street
Hayward, CA 94541
510-881-7936





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