[347] in ad-lib
Re: ISSUE: holdings & orders access
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Eric Celeste)
Mon Apr 17 19:22:47 1995
To: Ellen Finnie Duranceau <efinnie@MIT.EDU>
Cc: ad-cat@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 14 Apr 1995 19:55:06 EDT."
<9504142355.AA12342@macfadden.MIT.EDU>
Date: Mon, 17 Apr 1995 19:22:33 EDT
From: Eric Celeste <efc@MIT.EDU>
Ellen writes...
> Eric, the only thing I find confusing about your note is
> the phrase you use--"allow catalogers to create copy sets."
> Actually, no one creates a copy set. You can create an
> order and set its status to serial or create a pub pattern
> for it, and in either case a copy set is created by the system.
>
> It's just word-quibbling, but anyway....
Actually, it turns out not to be word-quibbling. Walter and I discovered
on Friday afternoon that catalogers may not need access to ACQ:ORDA after
all since SER:HLDM seems to have everything we need to _create_ a copy set
without ordering anything. Even better, when a copy set is created this
way it appears in the catalog _immediately_ without the overnight wait of
an order.
Ellen, to see this in action, try Add Item in HLDM. The rest of you can't
see it yet since the HLDM keyword is not in the CAT module, but you can
look at "Eric's thrid URL serial" for an example of a copy set created
without an order (and two or three copy sets created with orders).
It seems that this SER:HLDM:Add Item may hold some promise for on-the-fly
kardex setup since it is _much_ simpler than adding an order... of course
we may need the orders for some other reason.
...Eric
