I work in a library that catalogs separately each volume of a multivolume book. I'm testing koha for a couple of days and today I tried to catalog a multivolume book. We have an ILS in which we can catalog the multivolume book as a whole without adding items, then we catalog each volume and use the linking bloc 4 (461) from unimarc to link to the set level and add items to each volume. I'm not sure now if this is possible in koha. Am I missing something? I apriciate some tips.
There is a plugin in UNIMARC Koha which can help you: unimarc_field_4XX.pl You have to modify you default framework. Add this plugin to 461$a for example. This plugin will allow you to search for serial or monograph host title. Then the biblio record ID (biblionumber) is copied into 461$9 and also descriptive fields into the appropriate 461 sufields. You have a sample here: http://smultidoc.ish-lyon.cnrs.fr/cgi-bin/koha/opac-detail.pl?biblionumber=3... You can see a link to the 'mother' biblio record. It works also from mother bilio to each related records (each volume in your example). Regards, -- Frédéric DEMIANS http://www.tamil.fr/u/fdemians.html