We are trying to figure out how to map a string description of the condition of our books into MARC21 so that it shows up for the user in the OPAC view of a book (i.e. under the Expanded MARC view). We deal with many rare and out-of-print books. We would like the description of the condition of a book to show up under "Damaged Status" which is currently represented in the SQL 'items' table as a boolean tinyint, 1==DAMAGED. We would like this to say something like for example "extensive water damage", or "fair". We are currently using 952$z to stash our own keyword strings (so that a z39.50 lookup/merge will not overwrite our own custom search strings), so using this field is out. I understand that the condition of a particular book is considered "item data", and should not be mapped to bib fields so I am currently mapping our condition descriptions to 852$q "Piece physical description". This seems right to me (or at least close), but I'm not sure how to force OPAC to display this field instead of 952$4 under Damaged Status. It is not clear to me how to change the "MARC bibliographic framework", and/or the "Koha to MARC mapping" to achieve the desired result. (A related question: Is there a way of adding "Damaged Status" to the OPAC "Normal" view?) Thanks for your time, Pete. -- View this message in context: http://koha.1045719.n5.nabble.com/Mapping-a-string-description-to-Damaged-St... Sent from the Koha - Discuss mailing list archive at Nabble.com.