Hi All! I can't resist this one! I agree with Stephen that we should have a MARC tag that Koha will use for "non-MARC linking" information. The philosophical underpinnings of MARC contain the convention that any tag that contains a 9 in any position may be locally defined. As has been mentioned in earlier messages, the 090 field (actually most of the 090's) have often been used to store local call number information, by such august groups as the Library of Congress, OCLC, etc. Additionally the 900 field was originally defined to hold local call numbers in a diskette transfer format called MicroLIF prior to 1991. (Post 1991 it changed to use 852, using subfield 9 to hold price). Other ILS vendors used 999, 949, and 959 at various times to store the same information - following the philosophy stated above. Other 900 fields have been used for other functions but these are the only ones I know of that have had any major significance. Id like to suggest using the 930 or the 970 fields for any Koha special needs. Neither, to my knowledge, has had any major use. We could define the field or fields and subfields we need and publish this as part of our system specifications. This would be appropriate use of the MARC structure and would work in both MARC 21 and UNIMARC. Hope that helps. Regards, Al Calame Librarian-at-Large, Albert P. Calame Consulting Montreal, Québec, Canada 514-745-3424 albert.p.calame@sympatico.ca ----- Original Message ----- From: "Stephen Hedges" <shedges@skemotah.com> To: "Bigwood, David" <Bigwood@lpi.usra.edu> Cc: <koha@lists.katipo.co.nz> Sent: Tuesday, September 09, 2003 10:39 AM Subject: RE: [Koha] 090 Fields
Bigwood, David said:
The call number in 050 and 090 are for the manifestation of the work not the individual copy. 852, is for copy information, so that would not be a
good
choice to map the info to. Greg's records should have a field with copy info including a call number, location within his institution, cost, fund info and whatever his institution needs to attach to that copy. That is good for 852.
050 and 090 classification information is not copy related.
Would anybody out there like to suggest a MARC tag other than 090 or the 8xx or 9xx tags (too commonly used for holdings information) that would be "safe" for holding the non-MARC linking information to the Koha database? (Please remember that Koha should be international, so we need to consider unimarc format, too.)
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