RE: distinguish dvd from vhs in media icons in webopac?

["Todd Humble" <THUMBLE at nrhtx dot com>]

Choose a mat type letter designation that is not officially used so items correctly cataloged will not be affected. 

Todd J. Humble, Supervisor 
North Richland Hills Public Library
NRH, TX 76180-7901
(817) 427 - 6822
 
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-----Original Message-----
From: Belvadi, Melissa [mailto:mbelvadi at maryville dot edu] 
Sent: Thursday, June 23, 2005 6:16 PM
To: Innovative Users List
Subject: distinguish dvd from vhs in media icons in webopac?

Hello. We've seen some libraries are able to have two different media
icons in their webopac for DVDs versus VHS videos. But we've been told
that the icons are tied to the material type field, which is tied to an
officially defined MARC fixed-field tag which doesn't distinguish
different kinds of videos.

So how is this being done? 

Does the solution involve the catalogers having to break official MARC
rules, or manually add an extra value somewhere to all records or
something like that?  We really want to do this, but the catalogers
really don't want the solution to create extra work for them on a
per-record basis.

Any advice, examples, tips, etc. would be greatly appreciated!


Melissa Belvadi
Systems and Services Librarian
Maryville University Library
13550 Conway Rd., St. Louis, MO 63141
mbelvadi at maryville dot edu
314-529-9531
Fax: 314-529-9941



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