Standard Lookup Groups
Reader Age Range (!BAGERANGE / Reader Popup)
A list of age-range groupings used for special purposes or general grouping. Typical entries include 'Minor' and 'Adult'.
Reader Audience (!BAUDIENCE / Reader Indexing) A grouping system proving a method by which access to Items can be restricted. Items are linked with the Item Audience group to provide restriction patterns.
Reader Circulation Profiles (!BPROFILE / Reader Popup) Records that define rules by which Items may be circulated.
Reader Gender (!BGENDER / Reader Popup) Genders for individual Reader.
Reader Groups (!BGROUPS / Reader Popup) A general method by which Reader can be grouped - in the case of an educational establishment, these groups may include class names.
Reader HID Formats (!ReaderHID / Reader Popup) A method by which rules can be created that govern the formatting of the unique (human readable) identification numbers. In most cases, these rules come into play during the automated generation of of numbers when creating new records.
Reader Locations (!BLOCATION / Reader Popup) Physical location of Reader.
Reader Salulations (!BSALUTE / Reader Popup) Prefixes for Reader names.
Booking Destinations (!BOOKDEST / System) Methods by which reserved or booked Items should be delivered on completion of a advanced booking.
Closure Days (!CLOSURES / System) Days and patterns defining when the library or collection agency is closed (i.e. not able to accept circulations).
Equal Opportunites (!EQUALOPS / System) A list of records that may be utilised for equal-opportunity purposes. A common use of the system is the production of statistical reports ensuring shared use / access to the library contents.
Equal Opportuity Types (!EQUALITY / System) Grouping methods for the Equal Opportunity records. These groups may include Race, Religion, Nationality and Disability Groups.
Item Audience (!IAUDIENCE / Item Indexing) A method by which Items can be allocated issue restriction types. In the case of audio/video media types, these may include the standard classification systems.
Item Categories (!ICATEGORY / Item Indexing) Item Categories are a general method of grouping Items. Groups may include the standard general literary-library types of 'Fiction' or 'Non-Fiction', or more specific such as 'Crime', 'Science Fiction' etc.
Item Category Types (System) A method by which groups of Item categories may be grouped together.
Item Contributor Types (Item Popup) A method by which contributors to the creation of an Item can be grouped together. Contributor types may include Authors, Editors, Actors etc.s
Item Contributors (!ICONT / Item Indexing) Contributors to the Item creation. May include that names of authors, editors, actors etc.
Item HID Formats (!ItemHID / Item Popup) A method by which rules can be created that govern the formatting of the unique (human readable) identification numbers. In most cases, these rules come into play during the automated generation of of numbers when creating new records.
Item Keyword Packages (Item Popup) A method of grouping keywords into packages. Rather than simply act as a grouping method in this case however, the keyword packages system is provided so as to be able to attach a large number of standard keywords in one assignment.
Item Keywords (!IKEYWORDS / Item Indexing) A set of keywords that are relevant to an individual Item. Keywords are one of the principle indexing methods for use by library users.
Item Languages (!ITEMLANG / Item Indexing) A range of languages which an individual Items may support.
Item Locations (!ILOCATION / Item Popup) Physical locations where an Item may be stored. Physical locations however, are general in nature (e.g. a building or room), whereas exact locations can be entered into an Item record directly.
Item Media (!IMEDIA / Item Popup) A list of media types which can be assigned to Items stored in the library. Partly an indexing method, media types also provide the facility to specify expansion editors. Each expansion editor provide a method of recording media specific information within each Item.
Item Publishers (!IPUBLISH / Item Indexing) Originating publishers of Items within the library.
Item Series (!ISERIES / Item Popup) A series to which an Item may belong.
Item Status (!ISTATUS / Item Popup) The current status of an Item - statuses may include normal, damaged, in-transit or other user created statues that are specific to the individual library.
Item Subjects (!ISUBJECTS / Item Indexing) A higher level indexing method similar in nature to Keywords but dealing with more general terminology. While Keywords may include words such as 'France', '1939', 'Blitzkrieg' and 'Churchill', the Subject lookup group may include 'World War II' relevant to the same series of Items.
Item Title Prefixes (!IPREFIX / Item Popup) Item title prefixes are words that are typically not used to index an Item using traditional library indexing rules. Typicaly for example, 'The Bible' is actually indexed as 'Bible, The' so that the most relevant alpha-numeric character is listed first. Words that should be rotated to the end of the Item title are included in this lookup list - rotation takes place automatically when creating an Item.
Item vendor (!IVENDOR / Item Indexing) Original vendor (supplier) of the Item.
System Licenses (!LICENSES / System) The System Licenses lookup list contains all of the licenses for system functionality that have been 'purchased' (may include free licenses) from Esferico. By default, Pergamon is provided in 'demonstrator' mode - the addition of each license into this picklist opens further functionality and removes demonstrator restrictions.
User Permissions (!USERPERM / System) The user permissions lookup list contains textual descriptions of permissions that may be assigned to a user in a 'true' / 'false' manner. In this case, the SysKey field is more important that the actual textual description as it is this field that is used by the application for language-insensitive identification of each permission.
