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    Shelf Reading Report (p_item_04) reports multi-volume sets as misshelved

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    • Article Type: General
    • Product: Aleph
    • Product Version: 16.02

    Description:
    How does the item-04 service handle multi-volume sets where the volume is in the description field? We are testing this service and have questions on why some of their multi-volume sets are list as item-misshelved.

    Resolution:
    p_item_04 does not handle the case where there are multiple items with the same call number correctly. It expects such items to be in order by their Z30-SEQUENCE-NUMBER, which they may or may not be. (It does not check the Enumeration or Description fields.)

    Ex Libris says that p-item-04 is not going to be fixed, since the new mechanism of 'inventory management' (p_item_01, p_item_07, p_item_08, p_item_09, and p_item_10) is working well. We have tested it, and find it does deal correctly with multi-volume sets. Please use that instead.

    • Article last edited: 10/8/2013