I'm interested
both in Talis's view of this functionality and the workaround (if any) that
other customer sites are using...
A Liaison
Librarian member of our Resource List project group is finding the management of
book chapters (and by implication journal articles) through the Bookmarking tool
vexing.
The scenario is
this: a List Publisher wants to add an entry for a book chapter for a print book
held in the library. Using the browser plug-in, they bookmark the book from the
library catalogue, but in the Bookmark preview screen there is only the
option to indicate that this item is 'Part of...' something else, whereas what
the Publisher of the List wants to do is indicate that this item 'Has part...'.
In other words, they want to grab the book record from the catalogue, and then
supplement that by adding a 'Has part...' entry to reference the individual
chapter that they want to highlight.
The same
constraint operates where a List Publisher bookmarks a journal record
from the library catalogue but then wants to indicate (using a 'Has part...'
option) the specific journal article that they want to
reference.
At present
it is possible to cludge a workaround for this - by adding a 'Part of...'
field; then flipping the Resource Type declaration for the two tabs which now
exist; then copying data around, but this is not fit for
purpose.
The Aspire
progress board indicates that UI changes to better support Chapter display is in
'Test' at present, which is welcome because it will hopefully address the
inconsistent management of the Title element for Books/Chapters in various
UI displays, but it would be good to have Talis's comments on the 'Has
part...' idea and the insights of any sites which have fine-tuned some
workarounds for this.
Regards
Richard Cross
Resource Discovery and
Innovation Manager
Libraries and Learning Resources
Hollymount House
Nottingham Trent
University
Nottingham NG1
4BU
t: +44(0)115 848
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