How to use Item Type ?
Hi, I have a basic question regarding Item Type. Item Type is required for Circulation Policy settings and Report generation, etc. For a Single Bibliographic RECORD (book) having 2 copies (ITEM), Say example, Item Type 1 = "Book" meant for Circulation and Item Type 2 ="Reference Book" meant only for reference purpose and not for loan/circulation to satisfy both conditions, either I can create both the item types (Books, Reference Book) and define a circulation policy -OR- by creating only one item type = i, e. "Books" and using 9XX, 7 - Not for loan, can I restrict loan/Circulation (reference). Which method should be used?? Am I wrong anywhere in understanding Item Type ? Should I create two "Item type" for a single bibliographic RECORD ? Kindly Clarify ? With Thanks Satish MV Librarian GEC Hassan Karnataka. -- View this message in context: http://koha.1045719.n5.nabble.com/How-to-use-Item-Type-tp5881573.html Sent from the Koha-general mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
Satish- Yes you can use multiple itemtypes on one bibliographic record. Both of the options you list would work in your situation. The benefit of having two itemtypes is that it may be more clear to your users that one is REFERENCE and the other is a 'normal' BOOK. Joy On Fri, Apr 1, 2016 at 2:10 AM, satishamv <lis4satish@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi,
I have a basic question regarding Item Type. Item Type is required for Circulation Policy settings and Report generation, etc.
For a Single Bibliographic RECORD (book) having 2 copies (ITEM), Say example, Item Type 1 = "Book" meant for Circulation and Item Type 2 ="Reference Book" meant only for reference purpose and not for loan/circulation
to satisfy both conditions, either I can create both the item types (Books, Reference Book) and define a circulation policy -OR-
by creating only one item type = i, e. "Books" and using 9XX, 7 - Not for loan, can I restrict loan/Circulation (reference).
Which method should be used?? Am I wrong anywhere in understanding Item Type ?
Should I create two "Item type" for a single bibliographic RECORD ?
Kindly Clarify ?
With Thanks Satish MV Librarian GEC Hassan Karnataka.
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+1 On 01-Apr-2016 7:07 PM, "Indranil Das Gupta" <indradg@gmail.com> wrote:
On Apr 1, 2016 7:03 PM, "Joy Nelson" <joy@bywatersolutions.com> wrote:
Satish- The benefit of having two itemtypes is that it may be more clear to your users that one is REFERENCE and the other is a 'normal' BOOK.
+1
Joy
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it might be a silly question, but I believe, similar question has been asked in the forum before but I did not get clarified. since "item type" is used for defining circulation rules, "Item Type" (952y) at "Item" level sounds good. What is the necessity of calling "Item type" (942c) at Record level instead of calling it as "record type". Circulation rules are defined for ITEMS which are associated with a RECORD. since record holds biblio detail, and items are meant for circulation, is it meaningful to call "item type" at record level? Is it necessary to define 942c? what happens only 952y exists? Kindly clarify me to understand this item type. with thanks Satish MV Librarian GEC Hassan Karnataka.
What is the necessity of calling "Item type" (942c) at Record level instead of calling it as "record type". Circulation rules are defined for ITEMS which are associated with a RECORD.
ByWater Solutions posted something about this recently. The short answer is that without a biblio-level item type (942c), any limit you configure on the number of holds per item type will not work correctly. http://bywatersolutions.com/2016/03/22/biblio-level-item-types-koha/ "Holds are not so simple — in particular, with biblio level holds, items aren’t associated with the hold record until the hold is filled. This means, for the purposes of determining how many of a given item type that a patron can check out, Koha must check the biblio level item type… and if those are not set, or aren’t set consistently across the collection, you may see errors in the number of items that a patron can put on hold." -- Owen -- Web Developer Athens County Public Libraries http://www.myacpl.org
Additionally, if you have bibliographic records without any items (electronic resources) you will need an itemtype at the bib level (942c) to allow for patrons to search for that type of resource. -joy On Wed, Apr 13, 2016 at 6:58 AM, Owen Leonard <oleonard@myacpl.org> wrote:
What is the necessity of calling "Item type" (942c) at Record level instead of calling it as "record type". Circulation rules are defined for ITEMS which are associated with a RECORD.
ByWater Solutions posted something about this recently. The short answer is that without a biblio-level item type (942c), any limit you configure on the number of holds per item type will not work correctly.
http://bywatersolutions.com/2016/03/22/biblio-level-item-types-koha/
"Holds are not so simple — in particular, with biblio level holds, items aren’t associated with the hold record until the hold is filled. This means, for the purposes of determining how many of a given item type that a patron can check out, Koha must check the biblio level item type… and if those are not set, or aren’t set consistently across the collection, you may see errors in the number of items that a patron can put on hold."
-- Owen
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