Hi folks, It's recently come to my attention that many ILSes store their items data in a 949 tag by default. Thusfar, we've stuck with the historical convention of 952 (which was our version of a 'localized' 852). 852, in the MARC21 standard, is reserved for 'holdings' data (holdings data is separate from items data, and there will be a future RFC addressing how Koha should handle holdings data). As Koha popularity expands, we should consider switching to the 'de facto' standard for items data (949). The need was brought to my attention recently on an OCLC list where it was discovered that OCLC uses 952 for internal codes, and therefore, it can't be exported. So libraries using OCLC for cataloging, who want to manually add their items data to their records, download them from OCLC, and them upload into Koha, will have to use another tag for items data. I'm thinking this would primarily consist of: 1. updating the default frameworks for MARC21 (UNIMARC too?) 2. updating the XSL stylesheets for MARC21 3. creating a script that moves stuff from 952 into 949 Thoughts? Cheers, -- Joshua Ferraro SUPPORT FOR OPEN-SOURCE SOFTWARE CEO migration, training, maintenance, support LibLime Featuring Koha Open-Source ILS jmf@liblime.com |Full Demos at http://liblime.com/koha |1(888)KohaILS