MMG
Agenda
Background
Information
March
20, 2002
SML
Room 409 at 1:00 p.m.
FOR DISCUSSION - MMG feedback requested
about:
1) Implications of Item Types for Acq, Cataloging
and Selectors (Audrey, Joan, all)
2) Work restrictions during conversion and
checkin records (Audrey, Marcia, all)
3) UPDATES (from Audrey)
- Test conversion status
- Work restrictions progress
- Training
- Hardware
- Printed products
- Security (workstation logons)
- Hook-to-holdings group
- Reports group
IMPLICATIONS OF ITEM TYPES
An item type in Voyager is roughly equivalent
to a load code in NOTIS.
In NOTIS we use 7 basic loan codes (norm,
lsfn, bldg, rstr, othr, jour, jr+year) in the item record, and over 90% of
our materials use the loan
Because the location code controls circulation
in NOTIS, Technical Services staff can ignore this loan code field except
when processing journal materials.
In VOYAGER we will have over 30 item types.
We need to increase from 7 loan codes to over 30 item types because the location
code in Voyager cannot be used to define access to materials. Only the
item type is used. We now need item types to indicate that the item circulates,
does not circulate, has a 3day, 2hr, 1 week loan period, has a special loan
period because it is a cd's, microform, other non-book material, or
that it has unique circulation rules because it belongs to a special collection
such as Ministry, Historical Sound Recordings, etc.
For every item we will need to know whether
it circulates, and if it does circulate, if it has a special or unusual circulation
policy. Technical
FOR DISCUSSION: How can we provide
Tech Svc staff with the information about item types?
CHECKIN RECORDS DURING CONVERSION
From 5/13 - 7/16 we will be converting the
Yale database from NOTIS to Voyager. Conversion is divided by module.
The timeline by module is
Cataloging
5/13 - 6/5
Acquisitions 6/12 - 7/5
Circulation
7/8 - 7/16
WebVoyage (OPAC) 7/16 - available
Checkin records in NOTIS are recorded in the
Acq. OPR record as receipt statements. On 5/13 these will be extracted
from NOTIS and migrated to the Voyager MFHD records. New receipt lines added
to OPRs after 5/13 will not appear in Voyager unless they are also keyed into
the Voyager MFHD record (requires
double-data entry).
Just within the SML Serials Support Team,
an average of 400 receipt lines are created each week as issues are checked-in.
In addition, an average of 120 volumes are handled weekly for Periodical Binding
Prep with receipt line information transferred into the notes field as holdings
are collapsed. This volume of work equates to a minimum of 520 records for
each week during the transition or a total of 4,200 item updates to be keyed
into Voyager when the system comes up on July 16. This same scenario is repeated
in each School or Department library that handles subscriptions.
Voyager cataloging will be available on 6/5.
Once cataloging is available, checkins may occur directly in Voyager by adding
an 866 tag to the MFHD record. For the period from 6/5 until 7/16 these
checkin records will not appear in our online catalog unless they are also
keyed into the NOTIS OPR (requires double data entry).
In summary:
5/13 - 6/5 -- Checkin records can be created
in NOTIS. They will not be subsequently migrated to Voyager. Double
data-entry required for checkin records to appear in Voyager.
6/5 - 7/16 -- Checkin records can be
created in Voyager as 866s in the MFHD record. These records will not
appear in the Yale online catalog
until Voyager goes live on 7/16.
FOR DISCUSSION - During the period
for 6/5-7/16 should checkin records be created in both systems to ensure uninterrupted
access to these issues through the online catalog?