On Thu 22 Apr, Steven F. Baljkas wrote:
But if you are right, Gregory, and Koha rejects items without ISBNs, what are we supposed to do when items really do not have them (i.e. pre-date ISBNs or just were never submitted to their publisher's national agency)? I suppose at worst one would have to make up fake ISBNs?!
2.20 certainly seems to accept items without isdns. I am not a librarian and my knowledge of marc is virtually nil. As I have said I am starting completely from scratch in putting data into Koha: we have no electronic records of any sort. Yesterday I entered into the "new biblio" page under title "A treatise on Deeds", year 1906 and author Norton. The z3950 servers found me dozens of records, none, so far as I could see, containing anything like Norton on Deeds (a very well known legal text book), although there were so many that I may have missed the relevant one, but when I changed the author to "Norton, Robert", the LoC & the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies produced the relevant result. That contains no ISDN but Koha seems quite happy with it. (I hope to start further cataloguing next week using a Psion netBook and WiFi. I suspect a large proportion of books will have no ISDNs). Roger -- Roger Horne 11 New Square, Lincoln's Inn, London WC2A 3QB, UK roger@hrothgar.co.uk http://www.hrothgar.co.uk/