Header change for Brief Record v.17

Submitted by colleen on Wed, 07/06/2005 - 10:05am.

We have had several questions about the data that displays in the brief record for version 17. The columns as they are currently set, "out of the box", are as follows:

Doc No. Call No. Author Title Year OWN PLNDUP PLNCTP

First of all, this is a similar format as the Brief record display in the Search module of version 17. The OWN field has been added as has the more complete bibliographic information and the columns that are labeled "--" in 15 are labeled PLNDUP and PLNCTP. These columns have no information at all. When the first cohort went STP, these were populated with holdings information. As soon as we added the second cohort, they were no longer used because they are not relevant for a large consortium.

The Call number field reveals the last library to catalog a title and is not a relevant field to any other library. The OWN field only tells you that more than one library has holdings on a title. This is done with an "*". It does not say that the library searching the record has holdings on this title.

We would suggest "turning off" these extra fields by right clicking on the header and deselecting the columns that are not helpful to you in your work.

If you are interested in only seeing records for items that your library holds, you can use the logical base, e.g., PLNACP or PLNWCP, search instead of the PLN01 search as your starting search. This should be available in the pull down menu of Find/Advanced Search/Base:. This is similar to searching the WebOpac configured to search only your site. You can also limit your search by using collection codes, etc. If you do not have access to this limited search capability, please contact your systems librarian for help. If you need a screen shot, let me know.