How to add book selections

How to add book selections

There is currently two ways to add a book selection to the list that is shown at https://library.rietveldacademie.nl/selections/.

Adding selections via a field 930

The main way to add a Book Selection to the website is by modifying the bibliographic records of the books that compose the selection, adding an entry using the Marc field 930. That is used to mark the books that are activated as a group in events, studium generale, reading groups, and other curated collections.

Adding selections of books manually as a curated selection

Alternatively, in cases in which it does not make sense to add the field 930 to the records, a Book Selection can also be made by selecting individual books by their record number:

Relating Book Selections to Library Events

An Event that exists in the website can be added in relation to a book selection, which will make automatic links from the selection to the event, and viceversa. To do so, you can select in the Book Selection the correct event from the drop-down menu Related Event. This will automatically add in the website view a link saying “This selection was made in the occasion of (name of the related event)”. In case you don’t want to add any additional Description to the Book selection apart from this line, since the Description is a required field, you can just add a space in the description text box, so that it is not seen as empty.