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About Staff searching
Why would you want staff searching? For
collection development, acquisition, and cataloging activities,
trouble-shooting problems, finding test records, etc.
Library staff are able to access all
records in Summit, including suppressed records, from the character-based OPAC.
Bibliographic,
item, order and checkin records can be suppressed independent of one another.
In other words, one item may be coded to display and another to suppress.
Depending on local policies, records may be suppressed in these situations:
missing, considered for withdrawal, withdrawn, on order, order canceled, etc.;
and “test” records for staff use.
How to do it
You will be able to
get to the real staff mode and find all records only when
you start from "outside" the local catalog search program: “telnet” to
Summit (summit.orbiscascade.org).
Or, go to Summit on the web, and click on the link for <Text only
access>. Instead of logging in
as “catalog” use the login name and password provided by your institution
representative, or Alliance staff.
(From
"inside" the local catalog search program: If you select an option to
Search Summit, or pass through a search from a browse menu, even if you had
started from a staff main menu, the search program transfers the data and it is
processed as a public search; the results will not include suppressed
records.)
The ability to access
"staff-only" records in Summit is controlled by a setting in the local
innopac. The local innopac sends the command (Search
Summit, from the Staff Main Menu) to Summit allowing access to the Summit staff
main menu.
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