Re: [Koha] Library of Congress call number
Hello: I'm am new to the list and Koha. I'm a MLIS student and I'll be testing and implementing Koha this semester for an independent study course. Could you add a field (eg. lcnumber ) to the BIBLIOITEMS table yourself and link the related MARC field in the MARC_SUBFIELD_TABLE to it? Then modify the templates to display the field? Or is this accomplished already with the biblionumber and biblioitemnumber fields in BIBLIOITEMS? They reference the MARC 090 field (local call number) and the c and d subfields respectively (I've never seen those myself ... only a and b subfields). See http://lists.katipo.co.nz/public/koha/2003/002349.html for discussion about the 090 issue. The collection I'm going to be converting uses LC call numbers (some in the 050 field, some in the 055 field, and many in the 090 field), so this is a functionality that I'd like to see. Sorry if this sounds confused. Regards, Donald dmoses2@uwo.ca On 2004-01-08 17:43:52 +0000 "Han, Yan" <hany@u.library.arizona.edu> wrote:
I heard that Koha does not support Library of Congress Call number. Is this true? If so, I am not quite understand if it is difficult to support this feature.
MJ Ray <mjr@dsl.pipex.com> replied: Koha has partial support for it, through the MARC records, but can't currently do much useful with it. I do not know whether it is difficult, either. Some notes about this bug are on http://bugs.koha.org/cgi-bin/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=498 but more useful notes (such as what needs changing to support it) are welcome. Personally, I have no immediate plans to work on this, but I don't know whether any developers do.
On Thu, Jan 08, 2004 at 02:39:29PM -0500, dmoses2@uwo.ca said:
Hello: I'm am new to the list and Koha. I'm a MLIS student and I'll be testing and implementing Koha this semester for an independent study course. Could you add a field (eg. lcnumber ) to the BIBLIOITEMS table yourself and link the related MARC field in the MARC_SUBFIELD_TABLE to it? Then modify the templates to display the field?
You sure could. Thats probably how Id do it.
Or is this accomplished already with the biblionumber and biblioitemnumber fields in BIBLIOITEMS? They reference the MARC 090 field (local call number) and the c and d subfields respectively (I've never seen those myself ... only a and b subfields).
Nope the local call number is koha's internal numbering system. So I think your previous suggestion would be the way to do it. If you have the skills/desire to give it a try and see if it works, that would be fantastic ;-) Chris -- Chris Cormack Programmer 027 4500 789 Katipo Communications Ltd chris@katipo.co.nz www.katipo.co.nz
I would like to add my plea for Library of Congress call numbers. I am going to be giving a presentation about Koha at a library conference in February. There could be anywhere from 100-150 people attending my presentation and I'm told that most of them are from academic libraries. Most academic libraries use LOC call numbers, so I'd like to be able to tell them that this is a functionality that is at least being worked on. I would be happy to give credit at the presentation to anyone who says they will work on this. Thank you! --Denise Sharp dmoses2@uwo.ca wrote:
Hello: I'm am new to the list and Koha. I'm a MLIS student and I'll be testing and implementing Koha this semester for an independent study course. Could you add a field (eg. lcnumber ) to the BIBLIOITEMS table yourself and link the related MARC field in the MARC_SUBFIELD_TABLE to it? Then modify the templates to display the field? Or is this accomplished already with the biblionumber and biblioitemnumber fields in BIBLIOITEMS? They reference the MARC 090 field (local call number) and the c and d subfields respectively (I've never seen those myself ... only a and b subfields). See http://lists.katipo.co.nz/public/koha/2003/002349.html for discussion about the 090 issue. The collection I'm going to be converting uses LC call numbers (some in the 050 field, some in the 055 field, and many in the 090 field), so this is a functionality that I'd like to see. Sorry if this sounds confused. Regards, Donald dmoses2@uwo.ca
On 2004-01-08 17:43:52 +0000 "Han, Yan" <hany@u.library.arizona.edu> wrote:
I heard that Koha does not support Library of Congress Call number. Is this true? If so, I am not quite understand if it is difficult to support this feature.
MJ Ray <mjr@dsl.pipex.com> replied:
Koha has partial support for it, through the MARC records, but can't currently do much useful with it. I do not know whether it is difficult, either. Some notes about this bug are on http://bugs.koha.org/cgi-bin/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=498 but more useful notes (such as what needs changing to support it) are welcome. Personally, I have no immediate plans to work on this, but I don't know whether any developers do.
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On 2004-01-08 19:39:29 +0000 dmoses2@uwo.ca wrote:
add a field (eg. lcnumber ) to the BIBLIOITEMS table yourself and link the related MARC field in the MARC_SUBFIELD_TABLE to it? Then modify the templates to display the field?
Whoever adds this to the bug report, please note that we still need Dewey decimal support, so this needs to be controlled by some option. -- MJR/slef My Opinion Only and possibly not of any group I know. Please http://remember.to/edit_messages on lists to be sure I read http://mjr.towers.org.uk/ gopher://g.towers.org.uk/ slef@jabber.at Creative copyleft computing services via http://www.ttllp.co.uk/
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