[dlpdev] dlp and development-y bits

[E.L.Clement@Bradford.ac.uk]

Hi Saul & all,

How you doing?  I think I said in my last mail (which is probably a month ago 
now) that we're at the stage where we can (near as dammit) start cataloguing 
the books.... but I've got a few questions about the dlp which I probably 
should know the answers to - but currently don't ;-)

1. unique identifier (I think I called these accession numbers when we spoke 
in October) - it's currently using the isbn - are there plans to change this?  
where we've got a couple of copies of a core book we'd like to know we've got 
a couple of copies... 

2. subject catagories - these are a bit clunky - are they editable?  we would 
want to keyword things (or atleast be able to classify our collection in broad 
strokes our collection to make it open and accessible... and to assist users 
in finding stuff on the shelves... does this go against the ethos of the anti-
systemic library?   There was also a query about multiple authors - did this 
get resolved?  

We've also got our csv file of our catalogue to date... I'm thinking we might 
continue to add to this rather than the dlp direct and then if it's at all 
possible to do a bulk upload??? (any chance?)  we've already got 
bibliographies written for many of the items already (rather than the amazon 
reviews)...

other than that it looks like it's going well... 

also it appears that the march meeting isn't looking over hopeful now (for one 
reason or another)... do folks want to meet sometime in April? 

I should probably also extend an invite to all for the 1in12 gala opening - 
it's a  thursday evening - but we've got a few bits and pieces arranged for 
the rest of the mayday weekend....



Ellie

-- 
Ellie Clement
Subject Librarian (Engineering, Design and Technology)
JB Priestley Library
University of Bradford
BRADFORD
BD7 1DP

tel: 01274 233374
email: e.l.clement@bradford.ac.uk

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