Carol, I think this would be a problem -- it would certainly result in a strange MARC record. I'm going to post this thread to the Koha list to see if anyone else has an opinion or comment. Stephen On Dec 7, 2005, at 5:50 PM, Carol Ku wrote:
If we choose to stick with Koha cataloging feature, would it corrupt the record if we repeat the whole tag say 650, several times to get the number of subfields we need? We do not have much technical support, so as much as we can, we would like to keep things simple by using Koha catalogue. But of course if this posts an issue about the integrity of the MARC record entered, we will sure consider getting outside technical support. Stephen Hedges <shedges@athenscounty.lib.oh.us> wrote:
Nope, it's a commercial program. http://www.tlcdelivers.com/tlc/ You won't find it on their website, it's an old product that they no longer promote.
We are working with a class at Ohio University to develop a really nice stand-alone (and open source) cataloging utility, but that won't be ready fo r another six months or so.
Stephen
On Dec 6, 2005, at 4:16 PM, Carol Ku wrote:
Do you mean bibliophile that is available for free download at sourceforge.net??Do you think that program is better than koha's cataloguing module?
Stephen Hedges wrote:No, we don't use Koha at all for cataloging -- we use a program called
Bibliofile. That creates a file of MARC records which we import daily.
Stephen
On Dec 6, 2005, at 3:33 PM, Carol Ku wrote:
But when I look at the MARC record display of books, it displays say tag 050 twice, but the second display only shows one subfield e.g. subfield a. ?lt;br>> Did you have some programmers change the display page of the MARC record??I think if we know how to do that, we will use the Koha interface.
We don't use the cataloging interface -- we prepare our records with a different utility, then import them into Koha daily.
I think the subfield repeat may be a known bug, though I haven't checked kohabugs.
Stephen Hedges
On Dec 6, 2005, at 2:15 PM, Carol Ku wrote:
> Dear Sir/Madam: > We recently installed Koha for our library automation
Stephen Hedges wrote: project.?One
> issue we encounter is how to repeat a subfield item on the add biblio > page when cataloging a book.?I noticed that your library is able to &g t; repeat a subfield e.g. subfield a in the add biblio module. > ?lt;br>> Can you share with us how to do that??Thank you. > ?lt;br>> Carol >