Monday Minutes: Call Number Browse While Cataloging

by Jessie Zairo on Jan 25, 2021

In this week's Monday Minutes, Kelly and Jessie will show you how to browse for call numbers you are adding to the edit/add item page. The feature allows you to check the call number that you are planning on using for a specific item against existing call numbers within your database.

Searching in an Item Record

1. Navigate to Add or edit an item record
2. In the text field next to o - Full call number, enter your call number
3. Next, look for the ... on the right-hand side of the text field.
4. Click on the ... and that will open a modal window.

• The green tab will indicate where your call number will fall between.
• Anything highlighted in red will indicate the call number is already in use.

Setting Up your Framework

1. Go to MARC bibliographic framework
   1. Home --> Administration --> MARC frameworks
2. Click in MARC structure (Default framework)
   1. or another framework you want to add the plugin to
3. Search for tag: 952$o
4. In Others Options, click the dropdown for Plugin
5. Choose cn_browser.pl
6. Click save changes