New Librarian Training

Revision as of 13:23, 24 October 2007 by 209.2.60.44 (Talk)

STRUCTURE OF RECORDS IN MILLENNIUM

White fields are editable, blue are not
- fixed length fields versus variable length
Patron Records
- Most usable fields on top, go into view or edit to see the rest
- Unique structure to conform to postal bulk mail regulations
Bibliographic Summary Screen
- fields are movable and sortable
- holds/booking list
  - sort by location
  - sort by call number for volume information
  - sort by due date
  - Current location pulldown menu
  - Note locations on top do not always match locations for items
- item list
- checkin
- all
  - shows all records
  - includes order records
Bibliographic View Screen (MARC Record)
- note volume information
  - 300s
  - 400s
Item Records
- Total Checkout
- Total Renewal
- FY08 Checkout
- Last 3 FY Checkout

REGULAR CLEAN-UP/GLOBAL UPDATES

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.
EXAMPLE: CAN'T correct mispelled names.
EXAMPLE: could switch all instances of a location code

SEARCHING

notice branch name, status

notice call number search has less info

Your search query has been changed... Tried: (aligator and pickle and euphoria) no results found... Tried: (alligator or pickle or euphoria)

71 results found. sorted by relevance.

searching for nonfiction in picture books
Millennium hotkeys
- How to find them
- ctrl-< and ->
- ctrl-[ and -]
- alt-n to switch search index
Subject rotation
keyword limiting allowed in Millennium, use advanced search in OPAC
Experiment!--example of unknownable ("t:history and a:john and a:paul" vs. title "history with limits author "john" and author "paul")
there is a staff view that has the same info as Millennium (not recommended)
there is a Millennium manual (with lots of stuff that doesn't apply)