William, The MARC documentation is on-line at: http://www.loc.gov/marc/bibliographic/ecbdhome.html Also useful is the Tag of the Month archive at: http://www.fsc.follett.com/resources/tagofthemonth/index.cfm TK5105.888. D35 2000 is the Library of Congress Classification number. The 1st part goes into field 050 subfield a, D35 2000 goes in subfield b. If you use that as your call number it may also go in field 852, which contains local copy information. 005.7'2 --dc21 is the Dewey Classification number. The 1st part goes in field 082 subfield a. dc21 specifies which edition is being used and goes in subfield 2. If you use Dewey for your call numbers it would also go in field 852. The - is dropped from the LC Control number when it is entered in field 010. Sincerely, David Bigwood bigwood@lpi.usra.edu Lunar & Planetary Institute Cataloging news: http://www.catalogablog.blogspot.com -----Original Message----- From: William Villanueva [mailto:koha@purity.com.ph] Sent: Friday, September 05, 2003 1:41 AM To: koha@lists.katipo.co.nz Subject: [Koha] LCCN, group Hi! I'm not a librarian so I don't know which is which... I'm entering items into the system (2.0pre2) with simple aquisition and was wondering about the LCCN field. Eg. a book: Consumer-Effective web sites by Jodie Dalgleish inside the book I can see: ISBN -0-13-087827-8 and more numbers underneath: TK5105.888. D35 2000 005.7'2--dc21 00-029128 Looking it up in the Library of Congresss online catalog, I understand that TKxxxx is Call Number while 00-029128 is LC Control Number. If LC Control Number goes into the LCCN field, which field can I enter the other info (Call Number)? How about 005.7'2 --dc21 ? Would this be the Dewey number and if so, how should this be entered? Is there any part which goes into the Dewey sub? Lastly, how do I make use of the Group when adding items into the system? Thanks! God bless you. William -- William Villanueva http://www.purity.ph PGP key ID 0xDF608588 Registered linux user #179111 ================================================== I don't blame Congress. If I had $600 billion, I'd be irresponsible too. _______________________________________________ Koha mailing list Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha