[LM_NET] combining two collections

[Sarah Murphy <smurphy@JACO.K12.MS.US>]

I reposting this message because I received a message saying it was not posted 
because a mailbox was too full (?)

My school was our jr. high (grades 8-9) before it was combined with our high school 
(grades 10-12) so now we have grades 8-12 at my school, still in two buildings 
right next door to one another, each building with it's own library.  They are 
building us a new high school building which won't be be ready until 2010 to house 
grades 9-12.  We plan to combine both of these collections into one to take to the 
new high school.  More pressing is the fact that this summer we upgraded from 
Follett Circ/Cat to Destiny throughout our district.  My library (grades 8-9) 
converted into Destiny just fine.  The "gold" library (other building, grades 
10-12...we do have some cross-over of students in both buildings, however) had so 
many cataloging errors and duplicate barcode numbers with my collection that we 
decided it was best to leave it on Circ/Cat until we can clean up that collection 
by discarding old stuff, all paperbacks (they are in terrible shape), etc.  

How we can operate in Destiny and have some indication of what is in the "blue" 
library and what is in the "gold" library when they look at the catalog?  The 
Follett staff have been stumped by this issue (short of buying another site license 
for one of the buildings for the next year or two).  They tell us we only need one 
site license because we are one school.  I can't figure out how to easily indicate 
what is where without going into each individual record and indicating a 
sublocation.  I'm thinking it will be easier to just rebarcode the entire gold 
library collection once we weed (because their are so many duplicate barcode 
numbers between our two collections).  If anyone has any experience or ideas on a 
field or some indicator we can globally add to the "gold" records to indicate they 
are "next door", please, please let me know.

Other ideas on combining collections in a similar situation will also be so very 
much appreciated!  

Sarah Ohr Murphy, MLIS, NBCT
Library Media Specialist
St. Martin High School
10820 Yellowjacket Blvd.
Ocean Springs, MS  39564

smurphy@jaco.k12.ms.us 
phone:  228-875-4751 ext. 214

Jackson County School District, Mississippi

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