Wednesday, October 6, 2004 16:50 CDT Hi, Andres, Sorry for being flippant about the exchange rate data. If you wish to record such data, it is certainly within the scope of the 020$c (ISBN, qualifying info) to do so. Someone can correct me, but I am fairly certain it would be okay to code as in the following example: 020 __ $a0201696967 $c$24.95 (CAD) 020 __ $a0201696967 $c$17.95 (USD; exchange rate) I've seen cataloguing copy where just the $c was entered in, just to track price data. I was taught that cataloguers should always have the $a (just to reinforce what incarnation of the text we are talking about) so I always do that, but one of the examples at LC contradicts that teaching, so you should be allowed to adapt $c for your local usages. Again, sorry for being flippant before about exchange rates. I am very sympathetic to your libraries' expenses in importing books and other materials. It is a major issue in academic libraries in Canada, too. Cheers, Steven F. Baljkas library tech at large Koha neophyte Winnipeg, MB, Canada
From: Andres Tarallo <tarallo@ort.edu.uy> Date: 2004/10/06 Wed PM 01:07:09 CDT To: koha@lists.katipo.co.nz Subject: Re: [Koha] Currency on Items
Steven:
In my current ILS I take care of the following Items: Price, Currency (Pesos Uruguayos, Dollars, Euro) and exchange rate. This is important for us, we keep track of our books in both local currency and the foreing currency of the country they were purchased (we import many books), remeber that I live in a developing country (with inflation) and exchange rate matters here.
Andres
Baljkas Family wrote:
Wednesday, October 6, 2004 01:10 CDT
Hi, Stephen et al.,
Just 2 cents on the MARC matter.
To be accurate, MARC21 makes *no* assumption about currency type/s. That is left for humans doing the coding to worry about. In Canada, we are so used to entering prices twice (first for CDN, second for USD) it is a non-issue. All Andres should do is make sure his library's cataloguing policy allows for the different entries.
You will find that exempla for use of MARC21 on the LC website and elsewhere are mostly (i.e. almost all) using USD as the default. Sort of *cuius regio, eius religio*.
And one other minor correction, Stephen: the catalogue record has multiple points at which you can track currency (I wouldn't see the point in noting the exchange rate, but maybe I am just not OCD enough), not the least of which is within the $c qualifier ("the price or a brief statement of availability and [my emphasis] **any parenthetical information qualifying the information**").
Just FYI.