Hi Jesse, you can link the field to an existing authority type in the frameworks, so this should not be an issue. If you want to create your own authority type using a non-standard main heading (1xx field) that would be more complicated as you would need to make it searchable and probably make some other changes as well. 586 is set to display $a in the detail page at the moment, but only as a text, not linked. If you want to use the the $9 authority number for linking, you'd have to change the XSLT files and indexing configuration. Adding a text link for a keyword search could probably be done with jQuery. I hope this makes sense, Katrin On 05.06.19 02:15, Jesse Stallings wrote:

Hello!

What is the best location for literary award information? Ideally, I would be able to create an authority type for field 586 that would yield a search link on the detail page like those for authors and subjects: click to see a list of winners. Is something like that possible?

I've seen others put award information under 650, but they get lost in the list.

Regards, Jesse Stallings Librarian, College and Career Counselor Tulsa School of Arts and Sciences NHS, A Common Thread Sponsor TSAS.org _______________________________________________ Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz https://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha

Hi, Jesse-- I would hesitate to put a 650 in a record for the award that an item won, since that item wouldn't be *about* the award--if I wanted a 6XX field for an award, I'd be tempted to use a 655 instead. Our collection is very different, being a special/museum library, but we're having good luck using tags for awards, reading lists on which an item's appeared, etc. We still put a note into the bibliographic record about this (and, yes, a 586 is the right note for an award, and it is searched by keyword), but then add tags for the award, reading list, etc. You can see lots of ours in our tag cloud: https://keys.bywatersolutions.com/cgi-bin/koha/opac-tags.pl This has an added benefit of users being able to also apply tags for such awards, reading lists, etc. Alternatively, public lists might be useful, but we haven't tried that since we have few items in our collection that have received particular awards, mentions, etc. Another approach when there are lots of items for a particular award might be to create a bibliographic record for it with 856 links to your catalog records for the books. We have an example of this where we created a bibliographic record for a popular reading list with 856 links to our catalog records for the titles on the list, in order--it's kind of a dense record, but it works pretty well. The 856 links for, e.g., an annual award could have, e.g., 856 fields like this (completely made up example): 856 4 0 $3 2017, Koha catalog design for beginners $u https://koha... 856 4 0 $3 2018, Why I love authority records $u https://koha... 856 4 0 $3 2019, Putting the advanced into the advanced bibliographic editor $u https://koha... This bibliographic record could have the 6XX field for the award, 245 of the award, etc., and the records being linked to have their 586 fields, too. This would be pretty easy to maintain since you just add the appropriate 856 link(s) for the newly awarded items as they're cataloged, and you wouldn't have to create a new authority type to search the award note field, worry so much about consistency of the format/wording of this authority controlled-ish note in the 586 field, etc. Here's our example record of this type of record: https://keys.bywatersolutions.com/cgi-bin/koha/opac-detail.pl?biblionumber=3... Hope this is helpful! Cheerio, h2 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Heather Hernandez (she, her, hers) Technical Services Librarian San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park Research Center 2 Marina Blvd., Bldg. E, 3rd floor, San Francisco, CA 94123-1284 415-561-7032, heather_hernandez@nps.gov Library catalog: http://keys.bywatersolutions.com/