Elaine,<div><br></div><div>Reguarding your second question:</div><div><br></div><div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0.8ex; border-left-width: 1px; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-left-style: solid; padding-left: 1ex; ">
2) Analyticals - we've got lots of them, and they're one of the most</blockquote><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0.8ex; border-left-width: 1px; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-left-style: solid; padding-left: 1ex; ">
useful features of our database. One of our advisory committee has</blockquote><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0.8ex; border-left-width: 1px; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-left-style: solid; padding-left: 1ex; ">
suggested that we make a live link between the child record (eg. a</blockquote><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0.8ex; border-left-width: 1px; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-left-style: solid; padding-left: 1ex; ">
conference paper in a book of proceedings) and the parent record (the</blockquote><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0.8ex; border-left-width: 1px; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-left-style: solid; padding-left: 1ex; ">
proceedings themselves). I know where to do this in MARC, but I'm not</blockquote><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0.8ex; border-left-width: 1px; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-left-style: solid; padding-left: 1ex; ">
sure what should go in there. How do you put a hotlink between</blockquote><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0.8ex; border-left-width: 1px; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-left-style: solid; padding-left: 1ex; ">
biblios? Has anyone tried? Does it use the biblio number as a target?</blockquote></div><div><br></div><div>This feature works great in Koha and is easy enough to do. Just put the biblio number in 773$w or 774$w depending on the relationship you want to establish between records. 773$t, the field for the title is required by Koha. The rest of the subfields along with the title will be concatenated into the text that is displayed to your users; here there's a great deal of flexibility in how you can use and also order the subfields.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Best,</div><div>Patrick Redmon<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 6:22 PM, Elaine Bradtke <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bradtke.e@googlemail.com">bradtke.e@googlemail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">We're experimenting with migrating from a database into KOHA and I've<br>
got three sort of interrelated questions.<br>
1) once you've sucked in the newly minted MARC (I'll skip over the<br>
techno-magic our IT wizard is doing to get to that point) it seems as<br>
if it's still necessary to go into the MARC record and add info into<br>
003 005 and 008 fields. Is there any way that can be done either as<br>
part of the conversion process or as part of the importation? If it<br>
isn't done until sometime later (like when we get around to adding<br>
barcodes), does it wreak havoc in some part of the system that I<br>
haven't thought of? It looks as if searching works fine on unedited<br>
records.<br>
<br>
2) Analyticals - we've got lots of them, and they're one of the most<br>
useful features of our database. One of our advisory committee has<br>
suggested that we make a live link between the child record (eg. a<br>
conference paper in a book of proceedings) and the parent record (the<br>
proceedings themselves). I know where to do this in MARC, but I'm not<br>
sure what should go in there. How do you put a hotlink between<br>
biblios? Has anyone tried? Does it use the biblio number as a target?<br>
<br>
3) There seem to be quite a profusion of MARC frameworks. While I<br>
understand it will be useful when we bring in our data on Serials, and<br>
possibly the audio and video collections, I'm wondering what the point<br>
is for all the rest of the stuff. I've had to do some tweaking to the<br>
MARC framework to accommodate some of the complexities of our<br>
collection. So far I've done this in the Books, Booklets, Workbooks<br>
framework. But the import seems to go into the Default framework.<br>
Should I be making all my tweaks in the Default framework and not<br>
worry about the others for now? The items we're currently attempting<br>
to import are (mostly) some form of printed material.<br>
<br>
4) Ours is primarily a research collection with very few items that<br>
circulate and very few borrowers. I'd like to switch off the display<br>
of the 'not for loan' status, and perhaps hide the number of items<br>
(since, in the case of the analyticals it will say no items, which<br>
might be confusing). Has anyone made this sort of modification?<br>
<br>
thanks!<br>
<font color="#888888">--<br>
Elaine<br>
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