Hi, all! In our earliest exchange, on 6 Jul 2020 at 14:09, I wrote among other things:
I have been looking for an answer to the following question, but I've been unable to find one: What are the purpose and use of the frameworks?
[etc., etc., etc.] In an exchange on 6 Jul 2020 at 09:08, Caroline Cyr-La-Rose responded among other things: Frameworks are cataloguing "forms". You can use many different ones or just
the default one.
[etc., etc., etc.] In an exchange on 6 Jul 2020 at 10:12, John Sterbenz responded among other things: Frameworks give me the ability to do something I wished my previous catalog
could do but didn't--customized OPAC and staff-side field labels (all the way down to the subfield level, which is a really nice bonus). While the "provided" ones focus on format, you have the ability to create brand new ones, so if you have several collection of "regular old books" that you would want to which you want to assign and create new frameworks, you can do so easily.
[etc., etc., etc.] Thank you both. I understand now. I do have a follow-up question: Is it possible in Koha to change a framework of a group records en masse? For example, if I have a group of 747 maps (949 $c = "MAP") but their framework is BKS, can I change the framework to MAP through Koha in one fell swoop (and if so, how so); or must I painstakingly change them one at a time? I have tried exporting them into MarcEdit and importing them anew into Koha while selecting "Import this batch into the catalog" with "Add new bibliographic records into this framework:" (select from the dropdown menu), but the framework for each record remains as it was before the exporting and importing. Many thanks. -- 気を付けて。 /ki wo tukete/ = Take care. -- Charles. Charles Kelley, MLS PSC 704 Box 1029 APO AP 96338 Charles Kelley Tsukimino 1-Chome 5-2 Tsukimino Gaadenia #210 Yamato-shi, Kanagawa-ken 〒242-0002 JAPAN +1-301-741-7122 [US cell] +81-80-4356-2178 [JPN cell] mnogojazyk@aol.com [h] cmkelleymls@gmail.com [p] linkedin.com/in/cmkelleymls <http://www.linkedin.com/in/cmkelleymls> Meeting Your Information Needs. Virtually.