There are some libraries that do use both Dewey and LC classifications. A few, but they do exist. There are other libraries that use other schemes, SuDoc and NLM are both fairly common. Many academic libraries will use both LC and SuDoc. MARC might provide a solution. Local copy information, including the call number used by the institution goes in field 852. The 1st indicator shows the classification scheme used. http://www.loc.gov/marc/bibliographic/ecbdhold.html#mrcb852 Sincerely, David Bigwood bigwood@lpi.usra.edu Lunar & Planetary Institute Cataloging News: http://www.catalogablog.blogspot.com -----Original Message----- From: koha-admin@lists.katipo.co.nz on behalf of Han, Yan Sent: Fri 1/9/2004 9:57 AM To: 'COURYHOUSE@aol.com'; koha@lists.katipo.co.nz Cc: Subject: RE: [Koha] Library of Congress call number Maybe a more flexible way to do is to add a LC number field. The admin can configure to display DDC, LC fields. So even a library need both (which is rarely a case) will not have a problem. This won't touch on the original DDC field. I do not know how difficult to implement this. Yan -----Original Message----- From: COURYHOUSE@aol.com [mailto:COURYHOUSE@aol.com] Sent: Thursday, January 08, 2004 6:38 PM To: koha@lists.katipo.co.nz Subject: Re: [Koha] Library of Congress call number Perhaps during installation you choose which system you wish to use? Ed Sharpe archivist for SMECC On 2004-01-08 19:39:29 +0000 dmoses2@uwo.ca wrote: > add a field (eg. lcnumber ) to the BIBLIOITEMS table yourself and > link the > related MARC field in the MARC_SUBFIELD_TABLE to it? Then modify the > templates to display the field? Whoever adds this to the bug report, please note that we still need Dewey decimal support, so this needs to be controlled by some option. -- MJR/slef My Opinion Only and possibly not of any group I know. Please http://remember.to/edit_messages on lists to be sure I read http://mjr.towers.org.uk/ gopher://g.towers.org.uk/ slef@jabber.at Creative copyleft computing services via http://www.ttllp.co.uk/ _______________________________________________ Koha mailing list Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha