Item, Bib, & Patron Record Sets
Can Innovative please put the Record Set function into Sierra that is in Polaris. Record sets could be limited by admins by allowing catalogers to only have permission to Item Record Sets (for only their home library), MARC members can have permission to all three* types of record sets (item, bib, and patron*(?)), and circulation managers can have permission to only patron record sets. When I have to discard/withdraw 150 CDs from the collection I currently have to do it one at a time, but if Record Sets were available I could scan all 150 CDs into my Item Record Set, do a bulk change to ICode2 and Status and click Ok. It would cut my time down withdrawing large amounts of weeded items by 90%.
Jacob Brown
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Sierra's Create Lists functionality is very flexible and can be used with many different record types, including bibliographic, authority, item, holdings, patron, order, invoice, vendor, course, resource, license, contact, program, section, and volume records.
Another library has submitted an idea to Scan Barcodes Directly into Create List Review Files. To show your support for this idea, please vote and comment on it using this link: https://ideas.iii.com/forums/951745-ils-sierra/suggestions/47321894-scan-barcodes-directly-into-create-list-review-fil.
If there are other features related to Polaris record sets that are not available in Sierra, please submit a new idea to Idea Exchange and we will be happy to consider it.
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Sierra currently provides comparable functionality within Create Lists, which libraries use to manage data in bibliographic, item, and patron records. When used with Rapid Update or the Delete Records function, Create Lists can provide the user with very powerful tools to manage the data in Sierra. This link to the Sierra user documentation for Create Lists should help you get started: https://documentation.iii.com/sierrahelp/Default.htm#sgil/sgil_lists.html.
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Lynn Reynish
commented
Polaris library here: In addition to items, bibs, and patrons - Polaris also has authorities record sets. Scanning (with a barcode / RFID scanner) directly into record sets definitely makes withdrawing items quite simple though we use them for a lot of things.
