Just to elaborate, navigate to Administration/System Preferences/Authorities and set 'BiblioAddsAuthorities' to 'On'. I found that it was also helpful (especially for a school library) to create a custom bibliographic framework containing only the fields we needed. It made manual cataloguing significantly easier for school librarians who might not have much experience with MARC format cataloguing. Hope that helps! Emrys ________________________________ From: koha-bounces@lists.katipo.co.nz on behalf of Magnus Enger Sent: Wed 09/03/2011 14:07 To: Koha koha Subject: Re: [Koha] Add record author field locked? On 9 March 2011 14:38, Fogg, Shawn (DPH) <Shawn.Fogg@state.ma.us> wrote:
Hi,
We are using Koha in a small school now. One of my last hurdles is adding new books to Koha. We were able to add about half of the new books we have through Z39 searches but the remaining books (about 100) aren't being found.
In trying to add these by hand I am running into a problem in that I can't add the authors name to the catalog entry for a book. That field is showing as locked. I haven't been able to figure out how to change that.
Hi! Sounds like your problem is related to this: http://koha-community.org/documentation/faq/cataloging/#7 Best regards, Magnus Enger libriotech.no _______________________________________________ Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org <http://koha-community.org/> Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha