The Item Code 1 field was going to solve all my statistical issues. I thought it had 5 characters and each character could be 0-9 which meant I could assign a meaning to each character. For example, the first character indicates agency (1 for CPL, 2 for ADL, 3 for BKM) and the second character indicates audience (1 for adult, 2 for young adult, 3 for juvenile, 4 for other) and the third character, format, etc. HOWEVER it turns out that the largest number this field can hold is 32767 which is weirdly random and very limiting when you want to have a code that can be built with meaning.

Anyway, I'd like to suggest that the Item Code 1 maximum number be increased from 32767 to 99999 so it is more flexible for libraries to create meaningful statistical categories with it.

I hope I'm not alone! Please vote for this idea.

Best regards,
Katie DuClos