If the items attached to a biblio are for a best seller, patrons DO WANT a bib level hold. They don't care which particular item is received because they want to read the first available copy (item returned first). Item specific holds become necessary for multi-volume sets or a particular format, or a particlar part of a series. Gary Harris New Mexico State Library -----Original Message----- From: koha-bounces@lists.katipo.co.nz [mailto:koha-bounces@lists.katipo.co.nz] On Behalf Of hansbkk@gmail.com Sent: Thursday, March 10, 2011 6:39 AM To: Ian Walls Cc: koha@lists.katipo.co.nz Subject: Re: [Koha] Idea: Basing Cart off Items instead of Biblios On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 6:47 PM, Ian Walls <ian.walls@bywatersolutions.com> wrote:
You can still have items of different item types attached to a single biblio; that's no problem. And you could still have patrons add the biblios to their Carts, for tagging, putting on Lists or placing Biblio-level holds (amongst many others). This should work just fine.
OK, so far so good. However I didn't realize there was such a thing as a "Biblio-level" hold, and in my case I can't imagine it would be much use, since most patrons wouldn't want "whatever item type of this biblio is returned next", only a specific item type. But I imagine an item-specific hold would still be available - perhaps just not through carts/baskets?
If this does break your use-case, though, you can disable the Cart for patrons by turning off opacbasket in the system preferences area.
Good to know, thanks.
On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 1:06 AM, <hansbkk@gmail.com> wrote:
I was really hoping to take advantage of the fact that I could have different types of items associated with a single biblio record. But it seems if I go this route, then I should disable Carts for patrons? Is that even an option?
To review my situation with an example:
My current use case is that I have multiple media types for a single film. It's all exactly the same video, not a different edition, but one might be a disc that's playable on a consumer player (Disc-Video), another may contain computer files (Disc-Data), another combines both (Disc-Mixed), some of our VHS tapes haven't been converted yet, and some really old home movies are even on 35mm!
If I catalog these as separate biblios, this will creates multiple identical copies of the biblio-level MARC data, and just different ("holdings level") data in the items table, including item type. So when a patron searches for "2009 Proms Gala" they will get four identical but separate results.
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