I would like to add support for the idea that the notes should be keyword searchable. Perhaps this could be part of the advanced search options, as some collections might find it creates too many false positives as a general keyword search. Ideally, we should have some control over which fields may appear in the advanced search option. I've got ownership history notes (561) that are necessary, because there's no place to put this information in the item level (where, at least for published material, it belongs). Currently, it is only for display purposes, because we can't search on it. But it would be very useful if we could. We also have formatted contents notes (505) and will be making use of some of the other less common notes as we add in our sound recordings. (511, 518, 522, for example). Elaine 2010/10/11 Jared Camins-Esakov <jcamins@cpbibliography.com>:
Nicole, The American Numismatis Society is using Koha for collection-level MARC records. See, for example: http://donum.numismatics.org/cgi-bin/koha/opac-detail.pl?biblionumber=175790 We have found displaying archival records slightly problematic because archival records really need their display constants, and the undifferentiated view under "Title Notes" is rather hard to understand. The important 5xx fields could be added to the main display for the labels, if someone wanted to take the time to do that. The other problem we have with archival records is that most of the notes aren't even keyword searchable. That could be fixed easily enough too, however. Regards, Jared
On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 11:36 AM, Nicole Engard <nengard@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi all,
Is anyone on list using Koha to catalog archive collections? Someone asked me for examples of libraries using Koha for this purpose and I was just wondering if any of you happened to be doing this and if so how have you found it to work?
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