<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
<HTML><HEAD>
<META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
<META content="MSHTML 6.00.2800.1479" name=GENERATOR>
<STYLE></STYLE>
</HEAD>
<BODY bgColor=#ffffff>
<DIV>Hi again!</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV> This is an interesting problem, but one that could be
addressed through cataloguing. While I expect that you would have a
main entry for the journal title which would include a statement of the
volumes the library holds; for this special circumstance, I would add a
catalogue record for the bound volume including the analytical information that
you want to bring out. It is in the nature of MARC records that you have the
fields of information to bring out additional titles and subjects that you want
to highlight. You could have more than one set of such information in
the same record. </DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV> It might require you to modify the screen displays in
the OPAC so that the information would show up - but that is likely a desirable
thing anyway in a special library like yours. The barcode for this volume
would be in the volume record, rather than in the main entry, so the item status
would come up and not require an additional search. In addition, when the
user searches on the journal title, the analytical record wouls come up along
with the main record entry.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV> I think this approach would resolve the problem of
seeming to need to have the barcode in more than one record.</DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2> </FONT><FONT size=3> Regards,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2> <FONT size=3>Albert P. Calame</FONT>
<DIV><FONT size=2> </FONT><FONT size=3>Librarian at
Large</FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2> </FONT><FONT size=3>Library Management
Consultant</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2> </FONT><FONT size=3>Montreal,
Canada</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=3> 514-745-3424</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2> </FONT><A
href="mailto:albert.p.calame@sympatico.ca">albert.p.calame@sympatico.ca</A></DIV></FONT><FONT
size=2></FONT></DIV>
<BLOCKQUOTE dir=ltr
style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px">
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV>
<DIV
style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=bigwood@lpi.usra.edu href="mailto:bigwood@lpi.usra.edu">Bigwood,
David</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=koha@lists.katipo.co.nz
href="mailto:koha@lists.katipo.co.nz">koha@lists.katipo.co.nz</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Thursday, December 23, 2004 11:11
AM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> RE: [Koha] Barcode quandry</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN
class=635365815-23122004>There are times when having the same barcode assigned
to different records might be useful.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN
class=635365815-23122004></SPAN></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN class=635365815-23122004>Here
at the Lunar and Planetary Institute I create a catalog record for special
issues of journals, an analytic. For example, a recent issue of Astrophysics
and Space Science was a special issue with the title Magnetic fields and star
formation : theory versus observations. I created a separate catalog record
for that, however, it will be bound in a volume with other issues of and given
a barcode for the bound volume. It is very possible there may be another
special issue in that bound volume. All those bib records would be tied to the
one volume on the shelf with the one bar code. Presently, I do not assign a
bar code to the analytic records. It would be nice to assign the same one
to all and then our users could see if the special issue was on the shelf or
not. Now they have to do another search on the title of the journal and check
there.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN
class=635365815-23122004></SPAN></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN class=635365815-23122004>When
there is such a parent-child relationship between items it is possible to use
the same barcode for multiple bibliographic records.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN
class=635365815-23122004></SPAN></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN
class=635365815-23122004>Sincerely,</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN
class=635365815-23122004>David Bigwood</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN class=635365815-23122004><A
href="mailto:bigwood@lpi.usra.edu">bigwood@lpi.usra.edu</A></SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN
class=635365815-23122004>Lunar & Planetary Institute</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN class=635365815-23122004><A
href="http://www.lpi.usra.edu/library/whats_new.shtml">http://www.lpi.usra.edu/library/whats_new.shtml</A></SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<BLOCKQUOTE dir=ltr style="MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px">
<DIV class=OutlookMessageHeader dir=ltr align=left><FONT face=Tahoma
size=2>-----Original Message-----<BR><B>From:</B>
koha-admin@lists.katipo.co.nz [mailto:koha-admin@lists.katipo.co.nz]<B>On
Behalf Of </B>Albert P. Calame<BR><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, December 22, 2004
10:24 PM<BR><B>To:</B> BWS Johnson;
koha@lists.katipo.co.nz<BR><B>Subject:</B> Re: [Koha] Barcode
quandry</FONT><FONT face=Tahoma size=2><SPAN
class=635365815-23122004> </SPAN><BR></DIV></FONT>
<DIV><FONT size=2> <FONT size=3> I agree, of course, that
the system should <STRONG><U>NEVER</U></STRONG> accept duplicate barcodes.
They must be unique to the item they identify. If you must use, or are using
a numeric only barcode symbology, then you should set different numeric
prefixes to the ranges of numbers that you will use on the
barcodes for different holding branches or libraries.</FONT></FONT></DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2> </FONT><FONT size=3>Best wishes to all
for a happy holiday season from the frozen North!!</FONT></DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2> </FONT><FONT
size=3>Regards,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2> </FONT><FONT size=3>Albert P.
Calame</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2> </FONT>Librarian at
Large </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2> </FONT><FONT size=3>Library Management
Consultant</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2> </FONT><FONT size=3>Montreal,
Canada</FONT></DIV>
<DIV> 514-745-3424</DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2> </FONT><A
href="mailto:albert.p.calame@sympatico.ca">albert.p.calame@sympatico.ca</A></DIV>
<BLOCKQUOTE
style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px">
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV>
<DIV
style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=mhelman@illinoisalumni.org
href="mailto:mhelman@illinoisalumni.org">BWS Johnson</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=koha@lists.katipo.co.nz
href="mailto:koha@lists.katipo.co.nz">koha@lists.katipo.co.nz</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, December 22, 2004
9:44 PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> [Koha] Barcode quandry</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>Salve!<BR><BR>My .02 on having Koha accept two same
barcodes - bad pie! That's one of the things I intentionally checked for
when I installed. Perhaps there's a way to do a feature so that folks that
don't want barcodes can shut it off, but I shudder to think at the
possible multiple barcode errors that might haunt me later. I know it will
catch multiple borrower ids in its own comma'd way, and I know that it
used to yell at me when I used the same barcode, which I liked.<BR><BR>As
far as what you might be able to do about your branches - talk to your
vendor and consortium about adding initial digits to distinguish between
the branch and the main library. There might be a way to cleverly do this
retrospectively. I know that there was a good old function key programmed
at my old library, and I usually keep the 304540000 part of my barcode in
a notepad file for ease of cutting and pasting. I can't think of any ILS
off of the top of my head that wouldn't have the barcode function also as
an identifier.<BR><BR>Brooke @ Hinsdale
</BLOCKQUOTE></BLOCKQUOTE></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>