The Standard Letter Table is the basis of all of the communication tables. This table is not institution specific. Therefore, we have created a coding strategy for the 3C's so that campus and area information is easy to sort and find in the Standard Letter Table and subsequent tables that contain description (Descr) and short description (Descrshort).
The Descr has a total of 30 characters. The first 2 characters represent the Institution:
BL-Bloomington
KO-Kokomo
CO-Columbus
NW-Northwest
EA-East
SB-Southbend
IN-IUPUI
SE-Southeast
The 3rd-5th characters represent the Area Identifier:
ADM-Admissions
BUS-School of Business
EDU-Education
GRD-Graduate School/Programs
ITL-International
MBA-Business Program at IU Southeast
SCS-School of Continuting Studies
Note: Additional area identifiers will be added in subsequent phases.
The 6th character is a hyphen.
Characters 7-30 are available for the actual description of the item. You can also imbed additional sorting strategies here so that all items of a certain type sort together (i.e. letters, brochures, bulletins).
Some examples of Standard Letter Table descriptions:
The Descrshort is a 10-character field. It is difficult to imbed much meaning in such a small field and many times, the
Descrshort is simply the first 10 characters of the actual description of the item (characters 7-16 of the Descr).
Indiana University