On Mon, Jun 16, 2003 at 12:44:31PM -0500, baljkas@mb.sympatico.ca said:
Monday, June 16, 2003 12:40 CDT
Greetings, all!
I don't know if it's possible, but perhaps until the developers can create a classification field that uses ANY system/s the users need, it might be useful to have stop-gap 'DDC' and 'LC' versions of Koha. Ed is dead-on in noting that LC is really the standard for scientific libraries. I interviewed on one that insisted in using Dewey a few years ago: most of the call numbers were 20 digits. Not fun to try to use or communicate to users.
We do have an lccn field in the koha database. And you can load data into it, its currently not displaying or searchable yet though. This is a templating issue, im sure we could change it quite fast.
P.S. To be honest, I've also thought that it would be good to have MARC21 and UNIMARC versions as well; might simplify some mapping problems interim.
In the 1.9.x (soon to be 2.0) tree, MARC21 and UNIMARC are fully supported, so using the MARC search u can search LC with it. Its just the old search interface that would need tweaking to allow LC searching. I hope this makes sense, (im currently on the other side of the world from home, and slightly sleep deprived so i wouldnt be suprised if it doesnt :-)) Chris -- Chris Cormack Programmer 027 4500 789 Katipo Communications Ltd chris@katipo.co.nz www.katipo.co.nz