[888] in ad-lib
Acq Migration headaches...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (gyoung@MIT.EDU)
Tue Jun 20 18:05:09 1995
From: gyoung@MIT.EDU
To: davea@quasi.ca.geac.com, mbla@mother.clsi.us.geac.COM
Cc: acq2@MIT.EDU
Date: Tue, 20 Jun 1995 18:04:55 EDT
Acquisitions bib info seems to have migrated strangely. It would appear
that the POD bib info migrated OK but the bib info that had been through
the Acq-to-MRMS process got truncated somehow. This is leading to
strange displays in Acq.
E.g
Order 9400002090 - LCN 10688227 - Acq Control # 10026437.
The OPAC only shows the Publisher info and the Marc Record is really
bare (like a 260 and some control tags.) In Acq. you get the semblance
of a reasonable Marc record when you call it up. We have other records
with problems.
Order # Problem
9400010254 Title not migrated, not in OPAC
9400010255 Title not migrated, not in OPAC
9300016833 Only Series info migrated
We also seem to be having some setup problems with the author info not
appearing in the Acq. displays.
There also seem to be troubling inconsistencies with order statuses.
These questions linger from the first GMA:
94-00003028 & 94-00003025 have OPEN status when order was prepaid and
receipts complete and the estimated delivery date is blank.
I know you've got a bunch of other stuff you're trying to sort through.
I thought you'd like to know what our Acq. folks are finding. A lot of
stuff does look better in Acq. Getting the Order nos. into the Call No.
field was a neat trick and a lot of the other problems seem to have been
fixed with this migration.
-- Grant Young, Libraries Systems Office
