The list of 3-letter codes for this field is rather extensive: http://www.loc.gov/marc/languages/langhome.html But I suppose it wouldn't be too difficult to add a drop-down field for advance search that at least covers some of the major languages: Language Code English eng French fre German ger Greek grc Italian ita Latin lat Multiple (text in more than one language) mul Portuguese por Russian rus Spanish spa Undetermined und Items with no text (e.g. instrumental music scores, all illustrated Blank (from http://tinyurl.com/kpupn4 ) That would append "ln:[3-letter code]" to your search. For example: http://hartford.waldo.kohalibrary.com/cgi-bin/koha/opac-search.pl?q=monde+an... Thanks, -- Ben 2009/9/21 Kohn, Karen <kohnk@arcadia.edu>:
I am having the same problem. A faculty member just asked the other day for a list of books in certain languages, so I was glad to see Melisa’s question. I’d like to figure out if this is a bug, or if there’s something I can do as an administrator (i.e., not a coder) to fix it. If anyone knows of a workaround for now, that would be good, too.
Thanks.
Karen Kohn
Collection Development Manager
Landman Library
Arcadia University
450 S. Easton Road
Glenside, PA 19038
ph: 215-572-8528
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From: koha-bounces@lists.katipo.co.nz [mailto:koha-bounces@lists.katipo.co.nz] On Behalf Of Melisa Canales Sent: Friday, September 18, 2009 12:17 PM To: Nicole Engard Cc: koha Subject: Re: [Koha] How to search by Language on OPAC?
Thanks Nicole. I think I've still got something wrong. Our framework didn't have a 008 field so I created one. Now when I'm editing a record I have the "..." next to the field and when I click on it I am able to enter the 3-character language code in 35-37. But whenever I try to search by Language I am getting "No Results found."
On a side note, we were wondering if our patrons would have to use the 3-character code when searching in the OPAC. We want them to be able to enter "French" for example. Would that work?
Thank you, Melisa
On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 7:17 PM, Nicole Engard <nengard@gmail.com> wrote:
This is pulling from the language coded in the leader - http://www.oclc.org/bibformats/en/fixedfield/default.shtm
2009/9/17 Melisa Canales <mcanales29@gmail.com>:
Hello,
On the OPAC Advanced Search page one of the search options on the drop down list is "Language." Our collection contains a lot of foreign language films and it was my understanding we could use this field to search for all films in a particular language. Does anyone know the MARC tag that links to this search field? I've tried different ones, but have been unable to find the right one. Or maybe my understanding of the search field is incorrect...
Thank you, Melisa Canales
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