We don't have centralized cataloging. Each library is responsible for their own cataloging and their call numbers are their own. The two of us that are catalogers in the PINES staff would be likely the ones creating the monographic parts or we would be very specific to the person that would be creating them.
Elaine ________________________________ J. Elaine Hardy PINES Bibliographic Projects & Metadata Manager Georgia Public Library Service 1800 Century Place, Ste 150 Atlanta, Ga. 30345-4304 404.235-7128 404.235-7201, fax [email protected] www.georgialibraries.org www.georgialibraries.org/pines -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of [email protected] Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2013 3:04 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Planned Parts Development Elaine asks: Have you > considering, rather than Pt 2 merging labels changing it to making > managing parts permissions at the consortium level rather than the > local level? That would solve the duplicate label issue and move the > management further up the hierarchical structure. This would > essentially control the part label vocabulary. I just wanted to say from my perspective as a member of a consortium without centralized cataloging, that I really like the idea of being able to merge parts, and changing the permissions wouldn't work well for us. As it works now, catalogers can create the parts they need when they catalog an item, and those parts are available to be used by the other libraries. So far we haven't had a problem with people creating duplicate parts, but it would certainly be nice to have the option to merge them if that comes up. Since we don't have centralized cataloging, moving management of parts up the hierarchy would mean it would be done by non-catalogers, and it would be less efficient than the way we're doing it now where parts are created when volumes are cataloged. The sorting capability in Pt. 1 looks like it would be useful, too. Sarah Childs Senior Cataloger Hussey-Mayfield Memorial Public Library 250 North Fifth Street Zionsville, IN 46077 317-873-3149 x13330 [email protected]
