NYS Contract 2009
Posted on July 22nd, 2009 by jferriss
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Future of Bibliographic Control Final Report
Posted on January 24th, 2008 by jferriss
The final report is now available.
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Open Entries and Recent ISBN
Posted on June 19th, 2007 by jferriss
Target Audience
Posted on June 19th, 2007 by jferriss
To enable staff and patrons to limit their searches in the PAC/Staff client for“only children’s†materials or “only adult†materials it has been suggested that target audience in the bibliographic record be re-examined. Currently Technical Services staffs use the following target audiences: preschool, primary school, pre-teen, juvenile, young adult and general. It was decided at the Operations Committee meeting on June 6 ,2007 that general should not be used, but adult should be used. The staffs at MVLS, SALS & SCPL will not add preschool, primary school or pre-teen to records, but they will not remove this designation from valid cataloging sources. The staffs will add, juvenile for all materials created for children, including G and PG movies; young adult for all print and audiobooks that deal with teenagers and adult for everything else, including PG-13, R and NR movies.
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Graphic Novels: Easier to barcode, easier to find
Posted on April 27th, 2007 by jferriss
At the Opeartions Committee meeting on April 4, 2007 it was decided that MVLS/SALS catalogers will make individual records for graphic novel titles. Patrons and staff will be able to immediately see the title of the series, volume number and specific title (when available) in the brief display of the PAC.  Check out Mew Mew Tokyo. Browsing and searching by series will also bring up the series title and volume number. Check out Princess Ai. Read more…
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GMD- General Material Designators
Posted on April 27th, 2007 by jferriss
At the Opeartions Committee meeting on April 4, 2007 it was decided that MVLS/SALS catalogers will use different GMDs for more prominent display in the PAC for audiobooks formats, Playaways and Large print. Patrons and staff will now be able to keyword search for unabridged, abridged, Playaways, MP3 and large print. Read more…
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New Music Call Number Scheme at SALS
Posted on February 28th, 2007 by jferriss
It’s official. The new call number scheme has been adopted and is already in use.
Please check out the document that highlights the new terms, or categories being used.
If you never understood what ANSCR was in the first place, here is a clever YouTube video to check out… http://youtube.com/watch?v=8Zdw7T9jmas
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Apostrophes and ISBNS
Posted on January 31st, 2007 by jferriss
We have discovered that having an apostrophe in the ISBN field of a bib record can prevent the patron from placing a request in the PAC. I guess the Polaris software is just not equipped to deal with an apostrophe in the ISBN.
Those with the ability to add bibliographic records should take care when entering ISBNs. You should also be eliminating any apostrophes in words following the ISBN.
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Proposal for change to call numbers
Posted on November 27th, 2006 by jferriss
As of November 15, 2006, the catalogers at SALS and SCP will be making a change to the way they enter new call numbers in bibliographic records.
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The catalogers will only be adding Dewey numbers and cutter information in the 092 and 099 fields for new bib records.  They will not be adding prefix/suffix information (such as Fict, LT, Mystery, J, CD, DVD, etc.) This information should be in the item templates. The exception will be for music cataloged at SALS; this will remain unchanged. Because of this change, if a library uses item templates and has them set up correctly, libraries will no longer have to move data from one call number field to another.
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What this means to you:
You need to have your item templates set up correctly. Please contact your system trainer if you need assistance
Adding items for new bib records will require less manual editing for your staff for new items
Items added to existing bib records will still need to have the call number checked for accuracy
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If you have any questions, please contact the system trainers, trainers@sals.edu
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Welcome to CatBlog
Posted on November 27th, 2006 by jferriss
CatBlog is intended to disseminiate information regarding the bibliographic database shared by MVLS and SALS. Data entry conventions, request forms and protocol will be posted on this site.   This is also a forum to discuss workflow issues. Š
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