Hi Charles, As far as I know, Koha only uses those three MARC fields (942, 952 and 999). Also, have you looked at the following system preferences MarcFieldForCreatorId, MarcFieldForCreatorName, MarcFieldForModifierId and MarcFieldForModifierName? You can enter your local 9XX fields in there. Best, Caroline On 20-03-01 22 h 29, Charles Kelley wrote:
Hi, all!
I'd like to thank everyone for the help I have received in the past.
My library would like to begin tracking changes we make to the catalog records. I already know Koha does keep track of changes, for when I click on "Modification Logs", I see a rich history.
What I had in mind was something that we did in another library job of mine: rededicated a 9XX field to log a brief synopsis of the changes we made. Mostly just the cataloger's name or initials, timestamp, and a few words, e.g.,
949 \\ $a Kelley, Charles. $b 2020-02-28 $c Added subject field. $c Romanized Cyrillic title. 949 \\ $a Sloshkin, Victoria. $b 2020-02-29 $c Added editor [700]. $c Added series title. 949 \\ $a Watanabe, Junko. $b 2020-02-30 $c Fixed title indicators. 949 \\ $a Watanabe, Junko. $b 2020-02-31 $c OK.
Nothing more involved or detailed than the illustrations. If we really need the detail, we'll look at the modification logs.
I know the 9XX fields are locally defined, but as far as I can determine, Koha uses the 942, 952, and 999 fields and they are to be avoided. Are there other 9XX fields that we ought to avoid? I have added to the avoidance list the CANMARC fields and the other fields in the Koha default framework.
I understand I'll have to add the brief change log field (949 in my examples)and its subfields to the frameworks.
Many thanks for your help.
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