How to stop series title volume enter Authorities
Dear all, I would like to know how to setup, so volume designator (subfield $v) will be ignored when creating new authority for Series Title (MARC 8XX)? At this moment, Koha seems to take the entire heading, including volume designato, when creating new authority. Unfortunately by doing so, you cannot group the same series title together. At this moment, it is a pain that you have to remove volume designator on a new Series Title authority. Once this is done, you can then continue to work on subsequent volumes of the same series! Surely, there must be a way to instruct Koha not to add subfield $v to new Series Title authority automatically! Not to mention that it is not much fun merging 20+ similar Series Titles into one!! ----- Iming Chan Translib Information Service Melbourne, Australia -- View this message in context: http://koha.1045719.n5.nabble.com/How-to-stop-series-title-volume-enter-Auth... Sent from the Koha-general mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
At 04:53 AM 7/6/2014 -0700, Iming Chan wrote:
[snip] At this moment, it is a pain that you have to remove volume designator on a new Series Title authority. Once this is done, you can then continue to work on subsequent volumes of the same series! Surely, there must be a way to instruct Koha not to add subfield $v to new Series Title authority automatically! Not to mention that it is not much fun merging 20+ similar Series Titles into one!!
Our cataloguers tell me that they always save a *new* biblio record twice if it involves a *new* Series authority -- first for the $a, then for anything else; after that it's a walk in the park for all subsequent entries. It's been on my list of "things to look into" for some time now, but the cataloguers are so used to it that they no longer complain :=} Best -- Paul
Hi Paul, Thanks for your response. By following your suggestion, we need to predetermine whether each series title is a new heading. As well, the need to remove volume designator before the first save of bibliographic record concerned. Then paste such detail back before saving the same bib. record again. Definitely room for improvement, especially when Koha can simply ignore subfield $v, then this problem is all resolved! ----- Iming Chan Translib Information Service Melbourne, Australia http://opac.translib.com Phone: +61 3 9801 5097 Fax: +61 3 9801 4024 E-mail: iming@translib.com -- View this message in context: http://koha.1045719.n5.nabble.com/How-to-stop-series-title-volume-enter-Auth... Sent from the Koha-general mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
At 03:04 AM 7/7/2014 -0700, Iming Chan wrote:
Hi Paul,
Thanks for your response.
By following your suggestion, we need to predetermine whether each series title is a new heading.
Our cataloguers (so I'm told), always check the 1**, 4**, 6** and 7** authority entries -- it's an intrinsic part of the biblio db integrity without which we lose the OPAC usefulness of being able to click on authority links. I've just had a quick look, and here's an example of how things can go wrong: Time-Life Books <http://koha-admin/cgi-bin/koha/authorities/detail.pl?authid=6585>Details <http://koha-admin/cgi-bin/koha/catalogue/search.pl?type=intranet&op=do_search&idx=an,phr&q=6585>4 biblio(s) Time-Life Books. <http://koha-admin/cgi-bin/koha/authorities/detail.pl?authid=12090>Details <http://koha-admin/cgi-bin/koha/catalogue/search.pl?type=intranet&op=do_search&idx=an,phr&q=12090>74 biblio(s) Automation is wonderful, but the "Mark 1 human eyeball" is still superior :=) Best -- Paul --- Maritime heritage and history, preservation and conservation, research and education through the written word and the arts. <http://NavalMarineArchive.com> and <http://UltraMarine.ca>
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