Sirsidynix Symphony Workflows
Workflows Handbook. You must be logged in to access the Workflows handbook. Use the INFOhio state wide password or your school district account. Need a new user account? If you need a login, your library's SDSC User Managers can create a login for you. If you don't know who they are, email sdsc@sirsidynix.com.
Symphony search strategies: Workflows keyword searching Much of the power and advantage of Sirsi's Symphony is in its keyword searching functionality, powered by the site's ability to customize indexing through format-specific indexing policy tables. These policy tables enable one to pinpoint certain types of information provided in both the bibliographic or title record and its corresponding call number and item records. Architecture of Unicorn bibliographic information Before we can understand how searching works in Workflows it is important to understand the relationship of the three levels of bibliographic description associated with a book or other information resource and what types of unique data they contain. In Sirsispeak, these are called the title, call number, and copy records.
The distinction between the latter two is a Symphony peculiarity. Ccc Pathways Trial Software. Title record The title record consists of the MARC bibliographic record describing an information resource, along with management information appropriate at this level. The other data includes several fields that Unicorn uses internally to display holdings information in the OPAC plus date stamps indicating when activities, like record creation or editing, have transpired. The added MARC fields are. 596 Held by Owning libraries (contents supplied/subtracted by ADUTEXT) 597 Call # overflow For migrated DRA call # >40 characters, shows entire call # 599 Latest issues Contains last issue received as reported by Serials module The following table shows management information which is primarily used in reports for restricting results to records added by a particular group, in a particular date range, or by format. The last two columns indicate whether the field is accessible through a keyword search or report.
Field name Meaning Search Report Title control number See Control Numbers Searchable using 'Title control #' x x Record format Monograph, Serial, Computer File, Music, etc. X x Created by Work group responsible for loading or creating record. X Date cataloged Date flag manually set by catalogers when finished FedDocs and titles moved over from DRA will show NEVER. X Previously modified Work group responsible for last record edit x Date created Date first loaded into ILS pre-2003 dates carried over from DRA, but not from BIS x Date modified Date record last edited pre-2003 dates carried over from DRA, but not from BIS x Modified by Work group responsible for last record edit x Call number/volume record The call number record is associated with an owning LIBRARY and contains that library's call number and volume information.