Hi Steve: I assume that you're using the XSLT system preferences for search results? The "Type" field is determined by analysing the MARC record's "Leader" tag (i.e. it comes directly from the MARCXML - not a DB field). A type of "Book" comes up if position 6 of your Leader is "a" (Language material) or "t" (Manuscript language material), and if position 7 of your Leader is "c" (Collection), "d" (Subunit), or "m" (Monograph). If "Book" is coming up for records with item types of "DVD" and "Tape", it's because those records have been catalogued as books. This link might elucidate (or confuse) things more: http://www.loc.gov/marc/formatintegration.html In order to avoid a situation where you might have misleading information in your search results...you have several options: 1) Turn off the "DisplayOPACiconsXSLT" system preference. This will remove the "Type", "Format", etc. information from the OPAC search results (although it will still display in the intranet, if you've enabled XSLT there). 2) Fix the Leader in your catalogue records so that they are properly coded 3) Turn off XSLT for search results Hope that helps! David Cook Systems Librarian Prosentient Systems P/L ABN 31 078 409 168 72/330 Wattle St, Ultimo NSW 2007 tel: 02 92120899 fax: 02 92120885 dcook@prosentient.com.au -----Original Message----- Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2013 11:13:50 -0400 From: Steven Nickerson <snicker1@maine.rr.com> To: KOHA Mailing List <koha@lists.katipo.co.nz> Subject: [Koha] Type vs. Item Type Message-ID: <69D82AE0-C3B3-418D-9F36-6302A8E7B194@maine.rr.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Hi everyone, Can someone explain to me where the "Type" field in the search results comes from in the DB? Currently everything shows up as type "Book" even though in the details the Item Type shows correctly (i.e. DVD, Tape, etc). Thank you in advance! Steve