Evergreen-ILS Research: fixed field abbreviations

the proprietor — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 23:53:58 +0000

The Evergreen MARC editor uses abbreviations in the interface for fixed data. I was having a hard time figuring out what the abbreviations meant and page at OCLC appears to have most if not all of those abbreviations.

Evergreen-ILS Research: SIP2 media types

the proprietor — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 23:41:43 +0000

I’m working on a migration to the Evergreen ILS and encountered a sip2_media_type field in the config.circ_modifier table. It’s a text field but the example data in the schema file has numeric codes like ‘001’.

There didn’t seem to be any reference to what the valid values might be for this field, or what the codes indicated. I’m pretty sure this field is used for interfacing with self-check machines which is a function that won’t be used with the catalogue I’m working on. However, I figured it might be useful to know in any case so I went looking for a reference.

I was able to find a list of the 3M media types on this PDF document at the Library and Archives Canada website.

Valid values from the 3M Media Type scheme

000 Other
001 Book
002 Magazine
003 Bound journal
004 Audiotape
005 Videotape
006 CD/cdrom
007 DISKETTE
008 Book with Diskette
009 Book with CD
010 Book with audiotape

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Evergreen-ILS Research: fixed field abbreviations

Evergreen-ILS Research: SIP2 media types