This comes from the Millennium Manual at Consuls
Overview of Millennium Media
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To use Millennnium Media, you must be authorized for function 601 (View Media) and 602 (Add Media), 603 (Modify Media), or 604 (Delete Media), depending on the functions you want to perform. See Authorized Functions for more information.
Millennium Media Management enables you to provide media file access to patrons through bibliographic records in the Web OPAC. You can access Millennium Media in Millennium Cataloging, Millennium Circulation, Millennium Acquisitions, and Millennium Serials. To access, create, maintain, and delete media sets and files in these modules, use the Millennium Media window.
Millennium Media allows you to make the following media file types available to your patrons. If your library uses media file types that don't appear in this list, contact Innovative to enable those file types.
- images (BMP, GIF, JPEG, PNG, TIFF)
- sounds (MP3, WAV)
- movies (AVI, MOV)
- animation (MPEG)
- documents (DOC, PDF, PPT, TXT)
- HTML files
- URLs?
Each media file is contained in a media set, which is attached to a bibliographic record. A bibliographic record can contain multiple media sets.
Media Sets
A media set is a link attached to a bibliographic record. The link can contain media files, a thumbnail, and an indexed text file; note that thumbnails and indexed text files are available only if your library has acquired these functionalities. See the Millennium Media window for a graphical representation of a media set.
A media set can contain either multiple image files, or one media file of any non-image type (i.e., a movie, a sound file, a URL, etc.). You can add multiple media sets to one bibliographic record, which allows you to include media files of various types for one bibliographic record.
Web OPAC users click on the media set link (or thumbnail, if you have acquired this functionality) to access the media files.
Media sets typically are y-tagged MARC 962 fields; however your library can use a different MARC field or index.
See Adding New Media Sets and Deleting Media Sets for information on creating and removing media sets from bibliographic records.
Media Files
A media file can be an image or a non-image (e.g., a movie, a sound file, a PowerPoint? presentation, etc.). If the media files are images, you can include multiple files within one media set. For example, if you have scanned the pages of a journal article as a series of image files, all the image files can be included in one media set. When an image set contains multiple image files, Millennium Media displays them in the Image Viewer. This allows your patrons to page through the images one by one. The Image Viewer supports PNG, BMP, JPEG, and TIFF formats, so multiple images stored in one media set must be saved in one of these formats.
Millennium Media allows you to perform simple image editing functions on images, such as rotating, cropping, and resizing. You also can reorganize multiple images within a media set by re-ordering them.
If your media file is not an image, Millennium Media displays a Launch Associated Application button. When you select the media file and choose this button, Millennium launches the application associated with the file through your PC's operating system.
You can add new media files to a media set using various methods, including importing, scanning, importing URLs?, or linking to a URL. You also can delete media files from media sets. Thumbnails
If your library has acquired the ability to create thumbnail images Millennium Media automatically creates a thumbnail (a miniature version) of that image when you add an image file to a new media set. Millennium Media stores the thumbnail as a file called Thumbnail in the media set, along with the images and indexed text file, if one exists for the media set. The thumbnail displays as an image link in the Web OPAC and Web OPAC users can display the full version of the image by clicking on it.
If you add multiple image files to a new or existing media set, you can set any one of the images as the thumbnail. When Web OPAC users click on this thumbnail, Millennium Media launches the Image Viewer to display the images. The Image Viewer allows patrons to page through the images one by one, as well as manipulating (rotating, scaling, etc.) the images, printing the images, and saving them locally. Document Indexing
If your library has acquired Document Indexing, you can index media set text files in the m segment of the Advanced Keyword index. This enables users to search the data in the text files using the m: prefix in the Web OPAC after you have updated the Advanced Boolean Search page (srchhelp_X.html).
For more information on adding indexed text files to media sets, see Adding Text Files to Media Sets.
Last updated September 2002