On Fri, Dec 20, 2002 at 03:32:32PM -0800, Owen Leonard said:

I have a question about how reserves work in Koha:

I know from discussions with Chris that Koha handles titles in a particularly efficient manner, storing all distinct titles separately from the actual bibliographic records. So the entry from the master list might be:

The Two Towers

and that might encompass:

The Two Towers (c. 1965) The Two Towers (c. 2002) The Two Towers (audiocasstte)

When placing reserves, a patron searching for the book version of The Two Towers would usually be satisfied by either the 1965 or the 2002 versions, even though technically speaking they should have separate MARC records because they're different editions.

In Koha is there a way to reserve "any copy of any book version of this title," or must you pick an edition and then reserve "any copy of this edition?"

Hi Owen You can reserve any edition. The way to do it. is from a page like this http://intradev.katipo.co.nz/cgi-bin/koha/request.pl?bib=4069 You can select the 1999, 2001, and 1966 versions by checking the checkbox for them. And it that way, select any edition. Bear in mind intradev is our development site, so it does slightly mental things sometimes, so I cant vouch it will work that way there. But thats how it should work in 1.2.2 and as far as I know the 1.3.x releases. Hope this helps Chris PS Seen the movie yet? -- Chris Cormack Programmer 025 500 789 Katipo Communications Ltd chris@katipo.co.nz www.katipo.co.nz