Hi, I am new to Koha and have no library science experience. I am trying to understand MARC but stuck at the terms where there are some numbers with a dollar sign and then an alphabet. What is this basically? I would be grateful if someone can help me with a book or link that helps understand these terms or library/koha terms in general or in easy comprehension. other thing that i want to know is if a book is bilingual (Spanish and English or Arabic and English) , what should i write in Lnaguage code clumn? Thanks *Mehvish*
Hi, You can refer manual. Help is also given along with tags in marc framework. On 15-Aug-2016 10:56 PM, "Mehvish Farah" <mehvishfarah@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi, I am new to Koha and have no library science experience. I am trying to understand MARC but stuck at the terms where there are some numbers with a dollar sign and then an alphabet. What is this basically? I would be grateful if someone can help me with a book or link that helps understand these terms or library/koha terms in general or in easy comprehension.
other thing that i want to know is if a book is bilingual (Spanish and English or Arabic and English) , what should i write in Lnaguage code clumn?
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Mehvish, Hello and welcome to the Koha Community :-) MARC records are computer files which represent an item bibliographically (a citation of the title, author(s), illustrator(s), publisher, subjects/topics, a summary, etc.) at a title-level (not a record of each individual copy of a tile). When MARC records are displayed in human-readable format, one can find at the beginning of each line the identifier (also know as a MARC tag) of each data field (for example, 040, 100, 245, 300, etc.), and the letters or numbers preceded by a dollar sign ($a, $c, $2, etc.) are sub-fields within those data fields. Found between fields and sub-fields are indicators which instruct the computer system how to treat the information found within the MARC record. An example MARC field with sub-fields is 245$a[title] : $b[remainder of title] / $c[name of author]. Check out loc.gov/marc for a more complete explanation. All the best, Christopher Davis, MLS Systems & E-Services Librarian Uintah County Library cgdavis@uintah.utah.gov (435) 789-0091 ext.261 uintahlibrary.org basinlibraries.org facebook.com/uintahcountylibrary instagram.com/uintahcountylibrary On Mon, Aug 15, 2016 at 11:28 AM, vikram zadgaonkar <vikramczadgaonkar@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi, You can refer manual. Help is also given along with tags in marc framework.
On 15-Aug-2016 10:56 PM, "Mehvish Farah" <mehvishfarah@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi, I am new to Koha and have no library science experience. I am trying to understand MARC but stuck at the terms where there are some numbers with a dollar sign and then an alphabet. What is this basically? I would be grateful if someone can help me with a book or link that helps understand these terms or library/koha terms in general or in easy comprehension.
other thing that i want to know is if a book is bilingual (Spanish and English or Arabic and English) , what should i write in Lnaguage code clumn?
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Hi Mehvish, On Mon, Aug 15, 2016 at 10:55 PM, Mehvish Farah <mehvishfarah@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi, I am new to Koha and have no library science experience. I am trying to understand MARC but stuck at the terms where there are some numbers with a dollar sign and then an alphabet. What is this basically? I would be grateful if someone can help me with a book or link that helps understand these terms or library/koha terms in general or in easy comprehension.
You reminded me of myself from some 13 years back, didn't even know there was something as MARC :-) Have you looked at - https://www.loc.gov/marc/faq.html ? This book may be a good one by the way of a gentle introduction of the concepts to a non-cataloger - "Cataloging correctly for kids: an introduction to the tools", 5 edition - http://www.alastore.ala.org/detail.aspx?ID=2893 . Part of the book is online here https://books.google.co.in/books?id=pXaeMmeCA0UC
other thing that i want to know is if a book is bilingual (Spanish and English or Arabic and English) , what should i write in Lnaguage code clumn?
Bilingual as in translations? For example say a copy of Virgil’s Aeneid with the principal Latin text along with parallel English and Italian translations. Just enter the language code as latin, then english and italian as repeated 041 $a entries and then noting down the language code for Latin in 041 $h as the original language. (see here for details : https://www.loc.gov/marc/bibliographic/concise/bd041.html) hope this helps, Indranil Das Gupta L2C2 Technologies Phone : +91-98300-20971 Blog : http://blog.l2c2.co.in IRC : indradg on irc://irc.freenode.net Twitter : indradg
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