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

["Janet Fine" <janetrfine at hotmail dot com>]

2.14.05

Hi,

I really like using itypes when creating lists.  In a way I'm sorry that 
when we originally migrated to Innovative 10 years ago that we weren't more 
detailed in assigning itypes. Over the past 10 years, we have refined our 
use of itypes in that I have broken down material more specifically and 
assigned unique itypes based on a variety of factors, such as call 
number--i.e. YA Books on CD vs Adult Books on CD; Chinese language material 
vs Persian language material.  Every few months or so librarians who work in 
special areas request lists of material in their specific area.  Creating 
lists by itype in addition to the librarian's specified criteria really 
helps.  The loan rules are easy to maintain because you can just add new 
itypes to the existing loan rule.  Hope this helps.

Janet

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From: scorman at sdcpll dot org
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To: IUGINNOPACList<innopac at innopacusers dot org>
Subject: Re: The use of I-Types when setting up Millennium
Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2005 16:26:08 -0500 (EST)

I-Types are for circulation purposes. We have 3 day, 7 day, overnight, 
loose-leaf, charts, audiocassettes, videotapes, etc. What this does is allow 
you to run statistics on types of materials. The I-Type works with the loan 
rule to determine circulation, fines, etc. We have some people who are 
charged fines, some who aren't (judges, trustees, full-time employees). The 
loan determiner table works with the p-type to determine this.

If you need more info, please contact me directly.

Sheila Corman

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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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Janet Fine
Department Head, Circulation Services
Great Neck Library
159 Bayview Avenue
Great Neck, NY 11023
(516) 466-8055 ext. 205