pyCatalog

File Release Notes and Changelog

Release Name: 1.3

Notes:
May 23,2004 PyCatalog-1.2
                                                                                                                                                             
Newest changes are the following:
                                                                                                                                                             
I. Cataloging
                                                                                                                                                             
a. Accessioning - the parser now requires accession numbers to be entered
                                                                                                                                                             
1 Circulation
2 Reserver
                                                                                                                                                             
1 Location ID 1 DMLS
2 Location ID 2 DMLH
999 __ $aAccession Number$bCirculation ID/Reserve ID$cLocation ID
ie.     999 __ $aACC-212$b1$c1
        999 __ $aACC-213$b2$c1
                                                                                                                                                             
b. Material Type - the librarian can now specify the material type.
                                                                                                                                                             
998 __ $aMaterial Type ID
                                                                                                                                                             
1 Books
2 Serials
3 Maps
4 Musis
5 Visual Material
6 Computer Files
7 Mixed Material
8 Thesis
                                                                                                                                                             
ie.     998 __ $a1
                                                                                                                                                             
II. Distribution - the user can now choose from the distribution,
the current version now has a freezed compilation for linux and
windows, source code is also available. Freezed or compiled
binaries of pycatalog will run without Python, wxPython and
other necessary libraries installed. The pycatalog freezed
distribution will run as stand-alone.
                                                                                                                                                             
The program now has the following:
                                                                                                                                                             
a. pycatalog-src-1.2.zip
b. pycatalog-win32-1.2.zip
c. pycatalog-linux-1.2.tar.gz
                                                                                                                                                             
III. To run the application, simple type the main file,
first extract the tar file
$ tar -xzvf pycatalog-linux-1.2.tar.gz
$ cd pycatalog-1.2
$ ./pycatalog
or if using the source type
$ python pycatalog.py

in windows, simly unzip pycatalog-win32-1.2.zip then
proceed to its directory then type
c:\pycatalog-1.2\pycatalog.exe
                                                                                                                                                             
Note: This needs marc file to for generating catalog output
                                                                                                                                                             
TODO:
                                                                                                                                                             
Make the pycatalog generate all the subject card and the
shelf list card.
                                                                                                                                                             
                                                                                                                                                             
Thank you for using pycatalog
                                                                                                                                                             
Polerio T. Babao III
polerio AT users.sourceforge.net
pycatalog.sf.net
polerio.com


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