Rachel Hamilton-Williams a écrit :
Hi
I was wondering wether there are other libraries, particularly corporate or specialty libraries who have a need (or could see one :-) for sub branches.
The context for this is a Branch which is the office building in a city - eg Wellington
And then a sub branch which is the third floor.
This would be quite a lot of stuff to "touch" in Koha - specifically it would involve changing circulation and I think adds a layer of complexity perhaps to issuing and returning items.
On the other hand I'd imagine that the libraies who would use this wouldn't do that much issuing and returning?
SO thoughts pleasa? Is it a useful idea? Does anyone do it already?
Yes, me ;-) It's the "location" field in the items table (new in 2.1.1 iirc, maybe 2.1.2) See the log of my updatedatabase CVS commit from sep, ; Modified Files: updatedatabase Log Message: adding a "location" field to the library. This field is useful when the callnumber contains no information on the room where the item is stored. With this field, we now have 3 levels of informations to find a book : * the branch. * the location. * the callnumber. This should be versatile enough to solve any storing method. This hack is quite simple, due to the nice Biblio.pm API. The MARC => koha db link is automatically managed. Just add the link in the parameters section. Enjoy ;-) -- Paul POULAIN Consultant indépendant en logiciels libres responsable francophone de koha (SIGB libre http://www.koha-fr.org)