RE: The use of I-Types when setting up Millennium

["Ericsson, Paul" <PEricsson at onconcord dot com>]

Todd -

Please clarify for me how you make the leap from the list of itypes (ours is a similar list) to getting the search limiting by material type to work well.

Is there a functional use of the itypes for search limiting? Or do you make sure (create lists, rapid updates, etc...) that the bib level code is parallel to the itypes?

Thanks for the clarification.

Paul
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	Paul Ericsson
	Adult Services Supervisor / Automation Coordinator
	Concord Public Library    http://www.onconcord.com
	45 Green St.     Concord, NH 03301     603 230-3697
	pericsson at onconcord dot com
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-----Original Message-----
From: innopac-bounces at innopacusers dot org [mailto:innopac-bounces at innopacusers dot org] On Behalf Of Todd Humble
Sent: Friday, February 11, 2005 2:01 PM
To: IUG INNOPAC List
Subject: RE: The use of I-Types when setting up Millennium

 ITYPES

      LABEL
000 > undefined
001 > Noncirculating
002 > Books - Adult
003 > Books - Juvenile/Young Adult
004 > Videos - Fiction
005 > Videos - Nonfiction
006 > Sound recordings
007 > Paperback Fiction
008 > Interlibrary loans
009 > Audiobooks
010 > Framed art prints
011 > Digital Image
012 >
013 > Library Use Only Reserve
014 >
015 > Kit

 PATRON TYPE

      LABEL
000 > undefined
001 > Resident - Adult
002 > Resident - Juvenile
003 > Exempt borrower
004 > Reciprocal borrower - Adult
005 > Reciprocal borrower - Juvenile
006 > Nonresident - Adult
007 > Nonresident - Juvenile
008 > City Council Member
009 > Library Board Member
010 > Circulation Problem
011 > Technical Services
012 > Internet - Visiting user
013 > STAFF


FULL ACCESS FIXED LENGTH CODE DEFINITIONS                                 2

     CODE MEANING
01 >    -
02 >    a   BOOK
03 >    b   ARCHIVAL MATL
04 >    c   PRINTED MUSIC
05 >    d   DVD
06 >    e   PRINT MAP
07 >    g   VIDEO
08 >    h   BOOK ON DISC
09 >    i   BOOK ON TAPE
10 >    j   SOUNDRECORDING
11 >    k   ART PRINT
12 >    m   ELECTRONIC
13 >    o   KIT
14 >    p   PAMPHLET
15 >    q   EBOOKS
16 >    t   PRINT MS
17 >    s   SOUND CASSETTE
18 >    x   DIGITAL IMAGE
19 >    y   PRACTICE TEST
20 >    1   MAGAZINE
21 >    2   MICROFORM
22 >    3   NEWSPAPER
23 >    4   SCHOOL TEXTBK

These are samples of our settings:  we have many non-standard GMD codes because we display graphical representations to the public (ex: http://nrhcat.library.nrhtx.com/search/ta+series+of+un/tseries+of+un/1,12,24,B/exact&FF=tseries+of+unfortunate+events+bk++++7&1,3,)

Also reports that are built into the system will be of more use if there are more types (or search points)  for effieciency though I would use as few loan rules as possible 

Each item location is assigned a item type and the loan rule that matches this (the material type can be different).  I have signifigantly reduced the number of loan rules for system efficientcy, but if you do limit some items (max a patron can have) and not others (other types of material) that have the same number of days loan each needs to be assigned to a different rule.

If I have further confused the matter feel free to call me as I know the intertwinning of this can get blurry.

Hope this helped.

Todd J. Humble, Supervisor
North Richland Hills Public Library
NRH, TX 76180-7901
(817) 427 - 6822
 
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-----Original Message-----
From: Mandy Phillips [mailto:phillipm at edgehill dot ac dot uk]
Sent: Friday, February 11, 2005 3:05 AM
To: innopac at innopacusers dot org
Subject: The use of I-Types when setting up Millennium

Dear all,

We are currently beginning to implement III at Edge Hill and are having some difficulty in working out how we can map across our current practice to the new system.

I've got the I-type - P-type - Location - Loan rule thing (I think) however at present we don't really use I-type as we don't have limits set on how many types of one item a patron can borrow. We use the GMD's to limit searching.

Can anyone tell me the benefits of using the I-type versus the GMD for searching purposes, and if we do use I-type does it just have to be circulating items (as opposed to non-circulating)..

We have 3 week, 1 week, 1 day, overnight and end of day loan lengths - would we be better using these as item types? (Although if we have  5 copies of a book, they could all be on different loan lengths)..

I think the III example on CS Direct has confused me more than anything!

Any help would be appreciated..

Mandy
Edge Hill
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