New Librarian Training

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STRUCTURE OF RECORDS IN MILLENNIUM
 
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*White fields are editable, blue are not
 
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**fixed length fields versus variable length
 
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*Patron Records
 
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**Most usable fields on top, go into view or edit to see the rest
 
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**Unique structure to conform to postal bulk mail regulations
 
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*Bibliographic Summary Screen
 
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**fields are movable and sortable
 
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**holds/booking list
 
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***sort by location
 
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***sort by call number for volume information
 
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***sort by due date
 
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***Current location pulldown menu
 
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***Note locations on top do not always match locations for items
 
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**item list
 
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**checkin
 
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**all
 
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***shows all records
 
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***includes order records
 
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*Bibliographic View Screen (MARC Record)
 
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**note volume information
 
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***300s
 
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***400s
 
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*Item Records
 
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**Total Checkout
 
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**Total Renewal
 
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**FY08 Checkout
 
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**Last 3 FY Checkout
 
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REGULAR CLEAN-UP/GLOBAL UPDATES
 
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*Have a fairly powerful program to make corrections, if we can come up with a search picks up what we want to change fairly easily without a lot of mistakes.  Redundancy in data makes more likely for mistakes to be entered somewhere, but makes them easier to find in some cases.
 
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*EXAMPLE: CAN'T correct mispelled names.
 
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*EXAMPLE: could switch all instances of a location code
 
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SEARCHING
 
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*Using extended display
 
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:notice branch name, status
 
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:notice call number search has less info
 
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*The no hits screen
 
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:Your search query has been changed... Tried: (aligator and pickle and euphoria) no results found... Tried: (alligator or pickle or euphoria)
 
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71 results found. sorted by relevance.
 
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*searching for nonfiction in picture books
 
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*Millennium hotkeys
 
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**How to find them
 
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**ctrl-< and ->
 
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**ctrl-[ and -]
 
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**alt-n to switch search index
 
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*Subject rotation
 
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*keyword limiting allowed in Millennium, use advanced search in OPAC
 
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*Experiment!--example of unknownable ("t:history and a:john and a:paul" vs. title "history with limits author "john" and author "paul")
 
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*there is a staff view that has the same info as Millennium (not recommended)
 
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*there is a Millennium manual (with lots of stuff that doesn't apply)
 

Current revision as of 21:08, 4 March 2008

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