Betsy Simpson (Head of Cataloging at UF) and I presented at ELUNA this year. The title of our talk was Statistics for Cataloging: using Triggers and macro express.
Essentially we talked about how we are using triggers at UF to attach tags to our Holdings records. The metadata underlying these tags include Cataloging Unit, Cataloger, System # and Holdings #.
Combined with the predefined tags a report can be generated that gives useful information from the point of cataloging.
We use macro express to ensure the defined vocabulary is used correctly and uniformly. When collecting the reports macro express is used to being in additional information from the bib record like the Collection, sublibrary, and call# of the item.
The presentation went very well, and we look forward to refining the process described at the talk.
