Wednesday, November 17, 2004 22:50 CST Dear Ms. Ferreyra, My apologies for not responding more swiftly. I regret, too, that I don't have a proper answer to your question. An ISBD view -- or what some will think of as a card catalogue view -- would indeed be desirable. I don't know why you are getting an ERROR message in response to selecting that option. To be honest, I don't remember anyone ever mentioning this in the 2+ years I've been a loyal reader of the listserv. Can someone else please advise here? Are there others out there who use/want to use an ISBD (traditional) display mode? Are they/you receiving the same ERROR message? For the benefit of the programmers, developers and any others interested/involved, the format Ms. Ferreyra is referring to is summarised in the jpeg I have attached, drawn from the Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules, Second edition, 1998 revision (AACR2R 1998). Concentrate on the second level of description as this gives the best sense of the structure. If this is more than just a glitch that Laura is experiencing, I could map out the MARC fields involved if that is of help to fixing the problem. Again, my apologies for not having a ready (quick) answer, but hopefully someone more knowledgeable will respond shortly. Best wishes with your CDS/ISIS to Koha work. Sincerely, Steven F. Baljkas library tech at large Koha neophyte Winnipeg, MB, Canada ----- Original Message ----- From: "Laura Ferreyra" <ferreyra@ort.edu.uy> To: <baljkas@mts.net>; <silveira_y@ort.edu.uy> Sent: Tuesday, November 16, 2004 2:10 PM Subject: A question about display formats in Koha
Dear Mr. Baljkas,
Let me introduce myself, my name is Laura Ferreyra, I'm a librarian and I'm part of the teamwork in which also works Andres Tarallo and is trying to turn the library system of ORT University (Montevideo, Uruguay) from CDS/Isis to Koha.
What we want to know is what possibilities we have to see the records in koha through other display formats (for instance ISBD). This option appears in the page, but when we click on it it says ERROR. Andres recommended me to contact you and ask for advice.
Looking forward to hearing from you Thank you very much in advance,
Lic. Laura Ferreyra ORT University Libary Sistem
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