March 8th, 2021
Miss Honey's district is standardizing everyone's call numbers, which means all of her F prefixes need to be changed to FIC. Her first thought? This sounds like a lot of work. Luckily, Alexandria has a few utilities to make this easier.
First, it's important to understand the
in Alexandria. Unless otherwise specified in individual copy records, all copies will inherit and change with the title's call number.
Continuing with Miss Honey's example, she would use the Change Title Call Number and Change Copy Call Number utilities to update everything to her district's new standards.
Go to Tools > Utilities > Titles > General >
If you're changing a lot of title call number ranges and want the copies to all match, simply run the
with no selections once your title call numbers are set. Under the Options tab, select Match Copy to Title Call Number.
Using the same example, you'll need to run the utility twice: once to change the prefix and again to change the case. The nice thing here is that you can choose to modify both title and copy call numbers at the same time.
Go to Tools > Utilities > Titles > General >
And there you go! Your call numbers are updated in Alexandria.
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