Elaine, Reguarding your second question: 2) Analyticals - we've got lots of them, and they're one of the most useful features of our database. One of our advisory committee has suggested that we make a live link between the child record (eg. a conference paper in a book of proceedings) and the parent record (the proceedings themselves). I know where to do this in MARC, but I'm not sure what should go in there. How do you put a hotlink between biblios? Has anyone tried? Does it use the biblio number as a target? This feature works great in Koha and is easy enough to do. Just put the biblio number in 773$w or 774$w depending on the relationship you want to establish between records. 773$t, the field for the title is required by Koha. The rest of the subfields along with the title will be concatenated into the text that is displayed to your users; here there's a great deal of flexibility in how you can use and also order the subfields. Best, Patrick Redmon On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 6:22 PM, Elaine Bradtke <bradtke.e@googlemail.com>wrote:

We're experimenting with migrating from a database into KOHA and I've got three sort of interrelated questions. 1) once you've sucked in the newly minted MARC (I'll skip over the techno-magic our IT wizard is doing to get to that point) it seems as if it's still necessary to go into the MARC record and add info into 003 005 and 008 fields. Is there any way that can be done either as part of the conversion process or as part of the importation? If it isn't done until sometime later (like when we get around to adding barcodes), does it wreak havoc in some part of the system that I haven't thought of? It looks as if searching works fine on unedited records.

2) Analyticals - we've got lots of them, and they're one of the most useful features of our database. One of our advisory committee has suggested that we make a live link between the child record (eg. a conference paper in a book of proceedings) and the parent record (the proceedings themselves). I know where to do this in MARC, but I'm not sure what should go in there. How do you put a hotlink between biblios? Has anyone tried? Does it use the biblio number as a target?

3) There seem to be quite a profusion of MARC frameworks. While I understand it will be useful when we bring in our data on Serials, and possibly the audio and video collections, I'm wondering what the point is for all the rest of the stuff. I've had to do some tweaking to the MARC framework to accommodate some of the complexities of our collection. So far I've done this in the Books, Booklets, Workbooks framework. But the import seems to go into the Default framework. Should I be making all my tweaks in the Default framework and not worry about the others for now? The items we're currently attempting to import are (mostly) some form of printed material.

4) Ours is primarily a research collection with very few items that circulate and very few borrowers. I'd like to switch off the display of the 'not for loan' status, and perhaps hide the number of items (since, in the case of the analyticals it will say no items, which might be confusing). Has anyone made this sort of modification?

thanks! -- Elaine _______________________________________________ Koha mailing list Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha