Substitution Rules Don’t Have To Be Scary

Hallowe’en often turns our thoughts to things that frighten us the most. Librarians aren’t the type to scare easy, but there are still parts of our management system that makes the spine tingle.

Substitution Rules is definitely one of these.

Fear of the unknown is a powerful beast, and Substitution Rules are often a misunderstood and underappreciated feature: far easier to keep the trapdoor shut than find out what’s underneath!

In Accessit, Substitution Rules don’t have to be that scary. Rather than some terrifying monster causing chaos in your catalogue, they can actually be a friendly ghost making positive, forceful changes for your borrowers.

Maybe you want catalogued records to say ‘football’ rather than ‘soccer’ in their Subject fields?  Our Substitution Rules can do that for you.

Or perhaps you’d like your Classification field trimmed down to two Dewey numbers after the decimal point? They can do that too. How about no decimal numbers at all? The more you use Substitution Rules in Accessit, the less scary they become.

In fact, you only need to set a rule up once for it to stay working forever – whether that’s for adding new resources or making retrospective changes to exorcise past cataloguing demons.

Don’t be afraid to open that trapdoor and let Accessit’s Substitution Rules work their magic, saving you valuable time to face those other library fears.

Any questions?

Let us know via support@accessitlibrary.com and we’ll be happy to help.