Hi Tasha, 942$c - defines the type of material the bibliographic record represents, sort of like it's GMD (general material description). Has no bearing on circulation of material. Stored as marcxml in biblio_metadata. 952$y - defines the item-level item, and is used mandatorily for Koha's circulation rules which work as a permutation of (a) branchcodes (b) patron categories and (c) item-level item types. Stored as itype column in items table. Hope this helps Indranil On Fri, 15 Oct, 2021, 12:44 am Bales (US), Tasha R, < tasha.r.bales@boeing.com> wrote:
Good afternoon,
I recall reading (in the Koha manual?) the explanation for why it is advantageous to define Koha item type in the bib 942 field. I believe it has to do with exporting records, or the scope of records that is included when doing some type of report? I'm trying to locate that information again, but can't find it for the life of me.
Does this seem familiar to anyone? Thanks.
Tasha Bales Enterprise Services http://isesi.web.boeing.com/
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