Like many ILS, however, it does not appear that Koha actually does anything with the data at present (many ILS don't make full use of all the data that a MARC record encodes). That may change in future versions. Actually, the current version of Koha does use some of the data from
On Sun, Jul 30, 2006 at 08:41:47PM -0500, Steven F. Baljkas wrote: these fields < 10, and could easily be made to use more. In the next major version upgrade (2.4) much of the searching will rely on fields < 10. For instance, the 008 date fields, language codes, format, content, audience distinctions ... 007's material types, 003's control number id, 005's date of last transaction, etc. This applies only to the USMARC flavour of course, UNIMARC support for these fields is forthcoming. If you want see the beta of this new version, you can try out the following demo: http://zoomopac.liblime.com Cheers, -- Joshua Ferraro SUPPORT FOR OPEN-SOURCE SOFTWARE President, Technology migration, training, maintenance, support LibLime Featuring Koha Open-Source ILS jmf@liblime.com |Full Demos at http://liblime.com/koha |1(888)KohaILS