Re: I-types and their usage (again)

["Mandy Phillips" <phillipm at edgehill dot ac dot uk>]

Thanks Lesha,

I've looked at Sheffield (took me ages to find their library pages!)
and it seems that the old way (i-type linked to l-type) still stands !

Thanks,

Mandy

>>> L dot Fossey at exeter dot ac dot uk 17/02/2005 09:18:02 >>>

On Wed, 16 Feb 2005 19:51:11 +0000 (GMT) Mieko Yamaguchi
<iss053 at bangor dot ac dot uk> 
wrote:

> Mandy,
> 
> Although I replied to your previous email you are asking slightly
> different questions now, so I thought I'd add a couple of points (in
> CAPS in the text below).
> 
> On Wed, 16 Feb 2005, Mandy Phillips wrote:
> 
> > If a site wishes to display loan lengths in the catalogue then
those
> > loan lengths need to be defined as I-types.
> 
> AS I SAID IN MY PREVIOUS EMAIL SHEFFIELD HALLAM IS DOING THIS.  I
DON'T
> KNOW IF THEY ARE DISPLAYING THE VALUES OF I-TYPES OR ANOTHER FIELD
(E.G.
> OPAC MESSAGE) IN THE ITEM RECORD.  I SUGGEST YOU CONTACT THEM TO FIND
OUT.

We display the loan length (which corresponds to itype) in our OPAC but
in a 
roundabout way. We were told back when we started that the itype
couldn't be 
displayed in the OPAC (if this has since changed we'd be delighted to
know) and 
instead had to get Innovative to set up the Opac Message field to be
displayed 
in the OPAC to display this info. The name of this field has been
changed to 
"loan type" and we manually have to change it to correspond with the
itype. So 
the itype is used by the loan rule to actually circulate the item for
the 
correct length of time, and the loan type is used purely for display
purposes on 
the OPAC to in effect tell the patrons what itype it is. If we could
just 
display the itpe on the OPAC it'd be so much easier!

Lesha

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