Thursday, August 12, 2004 17:39 CDT Hi, Nicole, Tackling the one question I think I can answer from your list --

From: "Nicole Hatch" <N.Hatch@ecla.de> Date: 2004/08/12 Thu AM 07:25:39 CDT To: <koha@lists.katipo.co.nz> Subject: [Koha] questions on spine labels, permissions, & virtual shelves

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3) Is there a way to do a keyword search for "DVDs" that would bring up a listing of every DVD in our collection? This would be a really neat feature.

I am sure there is a more elegant way to do it in programming, but couldn't you just define DVD as one of the item types? In terms of a MARC solution, you could code a 655 tag as follows - 655 # # $aDVD. - or place the same information into a subject tag that is already indexed for searching (I am not certain which column in the Koha tables that would be). Hope this helps a bit. I am sure others will get back to you on your more complex questions. Cheers, Steven F. Baljkas library tech at large Koha neophyte Winnipeg, MB, Canada