Thursday, April 22, 2004 15:14 CDT Hi, MJ, Rachel, et al. Just so no one feels confused, there really aren't any MARC21 standards for patron information as such. Different ILS will try to export borrowers' records (at least current items on loan), but how another system, say Koha, can capture these is something I've never seen an explanation for and have quite frankly wondered about for years. I don't know what is meant exactly by 'financial records' but I am assuming that that is a euphemism for fines. Same as paragraph above. If one wanted to get into this with MARC21, one could look at using an 852 tag and/or some combination of 9xx tags to trap that information, and/or to create some kind of faux-MARC patron record (perhaps basing it not on the MARC21 Bibliographic Descriptive standards we are always referring to, albeit elliptically, but rather the Community standards that would allow us to define and describe people, not as resources as intended but as patrons). I don't know how you can achieve the transfer of information out of the whole gamut of different systems out there, but if you're gonna try it, I wouldn't worry about doing it with MARC. At least not right now. Anyway, that's my two cents worth. Cheers, Steven F. Baljkas library tech at large Koha neophyte (and MARC adept) Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada ----- Original Message ----- From: "MJ Ray" <mjr@dsl.pipex.com> To: <koha@lists.katipo.co.nz> Sent: Thursday, April 22, 2004 6:53 AM Subject: Re: [Koha] Export MARC from Koha
On 2004-04-22 03:20:19 +0100 Rachel Hamilton-Williams <rachel@katipo.co.nz> wrote:
If you're exporting data I assume that the MARC export only does the catalogue records - so it doesn't do - Borrowers/patron records - Finacial records? - Reserves Do you think it would be a good idea to have a method for exporting this data as well?
Are there useful desired standard formats to export these into? Going beyond the MARC export is probably for 2.2?
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