Hi
I'm using Koha to catalogue our family book collection (I hesitate to call it a library). Its about 3000 or so volumes and scattered through various book cases throughout the house. It is vaguely organised by various criteria, like size, suitability for children (low shelves), fiction (by author), non-fiction (roughly by subject) etc. What I would like Koha to tell me is where (bookcase) each volume is located. Which would be the appropriate field in the biblioitem to store this information?
It would seem to me that you have a couple of options... some more sane than others :-) You could set up each shelf as a "branch" unless you plan to catalogue books in your friends & relatives houses - in which case you should save branch for them. I think in an actual library, the class (or itemtype) is what usually determines what shelf an item is on - so they have fiction, junior fiction etc and they all tend to be shelved together. So you could do that. Steve has been doing work on virtual bookshelves - I'm not sure if that would suit your requirements, as you're talking about actual bookshelves. Or there is always the notes - where you can put whatever you want. Cheers Rachel_____________________________________________________________ Rachel Hamilton-Williams Katipo Communications WEBMISTRESS ph 021 389 128 or +64 04 934 1285 mailto:rachel@katipo.co.nz PO Box 12487, Wellington http://www.katipo.co.nz New Zealand Koha Open Source Library System http://www.koha.org