Thomas D said:

What is an appropriate value for the ISBD system preference?

Thomas D

Koha 2.2 can display records in a format that roughly conforms to the International Standard Bibliographic Description standards. ISBD is a family of standards developed by the Section on Cataloguing of the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) to standardize, as much as possible, the descriptive portion of bibliographic records produced in different countries. The standards specify the descriptive elements constituting the record, their order, and the punctuation between them. (See http://www.ifla.org/VII/s13/pubs/isbdg2004.pdf) In order to do this Koha requires that you fill this field with the proper set of instructions, or formula, for organizing your MARC tags into an ISBD-conformant display. The online help (click "Help" in the upper right corner of the System preferences screen) provides some instructions and an example of a French language display using UNIMARC tags. Libraries using MARC 21 instead of UNIMARC probably have records that already contain punctuation conforming to the Anglo-American Cataloging Rules, second edition (AACR2). A reasonably good "AACR2" display can be constructed for such libraries, too -- just put something like this in the value field for the ISBD variable: #050|<label>Call Number: </label>|{082a}{050a}{ /050b}|<br/><br/> #100|<label>Main Entry: </label>|{100a}{ 100b}{ 100c}{100d}{110a}{ 110b}{130a}|<br/> #245|<label> </label>|{245a}{ 245b}{ 245c}{ 245h}{ 246i}{ 246a}| #260||{ 250a}{ 250b}{-- 260a}{ 260b}{ 260c}| #300|<br/><label> </label>|{300a}{ 300b}{300c}|<br/> #020|<br/><label> ISBN</label>|{ 020a}{ 024a}|<br/> #440|<br/><label> </label>|{440a}{ 440v}|<br/> #500||{\n500a}|<br/> #511||{511a, }| #520|<label> </label>|{\n520a}{ 520b}| #600|<br/><label>Subjects: </label>|{ 600a.}{ #650|<label> </label>|{\n650a }{-- 650x}{-- 650z}{-- 650y}| #651|<label> </label>|{\n651a }{-- 651x}{-- 651z}{-- 651y}| #852|<br/><br/><label>Held at: </label>|{\n852a}{, 852b}{, 852c}| Note that I have not actually tried these values(!), so if you find that they don't work or you come up with something better, please share! -- Stephen Hedges Skemotah Solutions, USA www.skemotah.com -- shedges@skemotah.com _______________________________________________ Koha mailing list Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha