Fields 876-878 are a better choice to include acquisitions data. It includes the cost for each copy, different copies can have been purchased at different prices, or one could be a gift. It also includes where it was purchased, date acquired, item status and other subfields available for each copy. Field 037 is repeatable but not linked to each copy in the same manner. Sincerely, David Bigwood bigwood@lpi.usra.edu Lunar & Planetary Institute http://www.lpi.usra.edu/library/whats_new.shtml Cataloging News http://www.catalogablog.blogspot.com -----Original Message----- From: koha-admin@lists.katipo.co.nz [mailto:koha-admin@lists.katipo.co.nz]On Behalf Of Steve/Ollie/Steven F. Baljkas Sent: Friday, April 23, 2004 5:39 PM To: Chris Cormack; MJ Ray Cc: koha@lists.katipo.co.nz Subject: Re: Re: [Koha] Export MARC from Koha Friday, April 23, 2004 17:30 CDT Hi, Chris et al.,

Hi Guys

Theres also the budget data if using full acquisitions. This might be useful to export also.

Regarding the budget information kept in full acquisitions mode, I have to confess I haven't looked at that function, but there is a MARC tag available for item cost: tag 37. I agree that budgetary info would be useful to transfer, for a whole host of reasons (not the least of which is providing a base for determining replacement cost should an item be lost). As for fines, maybe I am just (too) grateful when things have been returned: rather than fussing about transferring fines, I'd suggest using the occasion of migration to offer an 'amnesty', something my local public library system does at irregular intervals (not dependent on system upgrades) and it seems to have a positive effect.

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I don't know what is meant exactly by 'financial records' but I am assuming that that is a euphemism for fines. Same as paragraph above.

I doubt that these can be exported in a useful way, but I could be wrong. Adding the ability to trigger code on fines to notify another accounting system may be interesting to someone.

Maybe if one adopted one of the neat ideas Dave Bigwood suggested (thanks Dave, I think what you suggested would be super) there would be some way of transferring the fine information (if substantial at least) to the patron file format? Anyway, just another two cents worth. Cheers, Steven F. Baljkas library tech at large Koha neophyte Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada _______________________________________________ Koha mailing list Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha