Friday, July 25, 2003 14:22 CDT David, Thank you for the very helpful rejoinder. I plead guilty to going with what was familiar to me. In all honesty, working with the few systems that I have, I'd never seen the holdings fields used and so hadn't looked into the 876. Of course, you are right. Very neat. Thank you for pointing all of us in a better direction! The FRBR stuff is also something I've yet to get into as keeping up with MARC has always seemed enough of a challenge. ;-) Thanks again, Steven F. Baljkas library tech at large Koha neophyte Winnipeg, MB CANADA see P.S. below "Bigwood, David" <Bigwood@lpi.usra.edu> wrote:

Steven,

Most of this I agree with 100%. Well said, it deserves better distribution.

However putting copy information into 037 is not the way I'd go. It is not easy to distinguish the different information for different copies there. Also, if we take a FRBR approach 037 seems to apply to the expression but acquisition information belongs at the item level.

P.S. when I'd used it that way, David, I'd taken advantage of its repeatability and the note fields to clarify the relationship of the price to the item level; nevertheless, you are right in what you say in recommending the 876.

Field 876 seems a better choice. That would tie the donated copy from 1999 to one item and the 1998 copy costing 45.00 from a particular fund with another copy.

Sincerely, David Bigwood bigwood@lpi.usra.edu Lunar & Planetary Institute

-----Original Message----- From: baljkas@mb.sympatico.ca [mailto:baljkas@mb.sympatico.ca] Sent: Thursday, July 24, 2003 7:51 PM To: larry@larrystamm.com; koha Cc: baljkas@mb.sympatico.ca Subject: Re:[Koha] data import question - a few more thoughts

Thursday, July 24, 2003 18:46 CDT

Hi, Larry,

Glad that some of what I wrote was useful. I know that the MARC stuff isn't easy for those who haven't been 'initiated' into its mysteries.

[major snip] Personally, I would have preferred the data to be placed in a good old 037 tag. To my mind, its subfields provide for all of the above, plus it can be entered at the time one creates a temporary >minimal record (to indicate to patrons searching that an item is on-order for example) without the need to muck about with the 852 or other call number field until the work is received in cataloguing.

The map for the 037, is simple $a Stock number - possibly useful for re-ordering/replacement $b Source of stock number/acquisition ** $c Terms of availability = (in almost all cases) price ** $f Form of issue - easily adaptable to be an institution's needs with a ltd. institution-specific set of terms or more ones more generally recognised $n Note - where you could easily enter acquisition fund (usually coded in most institutions anyway), order date and received-in date

ex. 037 _ _ $bBook Barn $c$22.50 $c$5.00 (sale price) $fTrade pbk. $nGenBkFund; ordered 20021209; received 20030108.