We're planning on using Koha's analytic records to handle cataloging of our ereaders and the ebooks loaded onto them. (Info on analytic records here: http://manual.koha-community.org/3.8/en/cataloging.html#cataloganalytics) I'm able to link our ebook record to the record for our ereader. When I check out the ereader, it is correctly checked out in both the staff & public interfaces, as expected. The record for the ebook, however, shows that it is still available (while also showing that the ereader is checked out). Is this the expected behavior? Our preference would be for the ebook to show as checked out as well, even though there's no guarantee that this particular item was desired or read by the patron and we may have to make adjustments to our circulation statistics. Link to the ebook record: http://catalog.splnh.com/cgi-bin/koha/opac-detail.pl?biblionumber=25778 Link to the ereader record: http://catalog.splnh.com/cgi-bin/koha/opac-detail.pl?biblionumber=25777 Thanks for your thoughts. Cab Vinton, Director Sanbornton Public Library Sanbornton, NH Life is short. Read fast!
Cab, We're planning on using Koha's analytic records to handle cataloging
of our ereaders and the ebooks loaded onto them.
Excellent! I am a big proponent of analytic records.
(Info on analytic records here: http://manual.koha-community.org/3.8/en/cataloging.html#cataloganalytics)
I'm able to link our ebook record to the record for our ereader. When I check out the ereader, it is correctly checked out in both the staff & public interfaces, as expected.
The record for the ebook, however, shows that it is still available (while also showing that the ereader is checked out). Is this the expected behavior? Our preference would be for the ebook to show as checked out as well, even though there's no guarantee that this particular item was desired or read by the patron and we may have to make adjustments to our circulation statistics.
I think there might be some confusion about how analytic records work in this context. If you are using the EasyAnalytics feature -- and that makes sense in this context -- you have only one item record which both the host record and the analytic records are linked to. When you check out the Nook, you check out that item. The two records you link to tell me that you have two items: a Nook, which includes a copy of Left Behind, and an e-book which is not on the Nook. If your only copy of the e-book is on the Nook, there should be only one item listed. If you also have a downloadable e-book, there should be a second item which would naturally not be checked out, since it does not circulate with the Nook. If the e-book circulates independently of the Nook but is currently on the Nook so that the patron can read it, analytics are inappropriate, because there is no mandatory relationship between the e-book and the Nook. Hope that helps to clarify. Regards, Jared -- Jared Camins-Esakov Bibliographer, C & P Bibliography Services, LLC (phone) +1 (917) 727-3445 (e-mail) jcamins@cpbibliography.com (web) http://www.cpbibliography.com/
Cab, perhaps I'm wrong, but you have added a proper item with his own call number to your record "Left behind...", and another "virtual" item when you link that record as an analytic of the nook. So Koha shows that you have 2 items, one in the nook and another that is physically present. That last is shown as available. Is my understanding that you must not add a item to the analytic record, because is a subset of the physical item (nook). 773 is repeatable, and the procedure shown in the manual let you add as many "virtual" items as necessary. Then you will have available (or not) items depending on the nooks availability. Regards, Bernardo -- Bernardo Gonzalez Kriegel bgkriegel@gmail.com On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 12:26 AM, Cab Vinton <bibliwho@gmail.com> wrote:
We're planning on using Koha's analytic records to handle cataloging of our ereaders and the ebooks loaded onto them.
(Info on analytic records here: http://manual.koha-community.org/3.8/en/cataloging.html#cataloganalytics)
I'm able to link our ebook record to the record for our ereader. When I check out the ereader, it is correctly checked out in both the staff & public interfaces, as expected.
The record for the ebook, however, shows that it is still available (while also showing that the ereader is checked out). Is this the expected behavior? Our preference would be for the ebook to show as checked out as well, even though there's no guarantee that this particular item was desired or read by the patron and we may have to make adjustments to our circulation statistics.
Link to the ebook record: http://catalog.splnh.com/cgi-bin/koha/opac-detail.pl?biblionumber=25778
Link to the ereader record: http://catalog.splnh.com/cgi-bin/koha/opac-detail.pl?biblionumber=25777
Thanks for your thoughts.
Cab Vinton, Director Sanbornton Public Library Sanbornton, NH
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I deleted the ebook item & now everything is working as it should: http://staff.splnh.com/cgi-bin/koha/catalogue/detail.pl?biblionumber=25778 I was indeed confused about how analytic records should be set up. A happy camper now :-) Thanks you, Bernardo & Jared, for the prompt responses. Best, Cab Vinton, Director Sanbornton Public Library Sanbornton, NH Life is short. Read fast! On Wed, Jan 9, 2013 at 10:34 PM, Bernardo Gonzalez Kriegel <bgkriegel@gmail.com> wrote:
Cab, perhaps I'm wrong, but you have added a proper item with his own call number to your record "Left behind...", and another "virtual" item when you link that record as an analytic of the nook.
So Koha shows that you have 2 items, one in the nook and another that is physically present. That last is shown as available.
Is my understanding that you must not add a item to the analytic record, because is a subset of the physical item (nook).
773 is repeatable, and the procedure shown in the manual let you add as many "virtual" items as necessary. Then you will have available (or not) items depending on the nooks availability.
Regards, Bernardo -- Bernardo Gonzalez Kriegel bgkriegel@gmail.com
On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 12:26 AM, Cab Vinton <bibliwho@gmail.com> wrote:
We're planning on using Koha's analytic records to handle cataloging of our ereaders and the ebooks loaded onto them.
(Info on analytic records here: http://manual.koha-community.org/3.8/en/cataloging.html#cataloganalytics)
I'm able to link our ebook record to the record for our ereader. When I check out the ereader, it is correctly checked out in both the staff & public interfaces, as expected.
The record for the ebook, however, shows that it is still available (while also showing that the ereader is checked out). Is this the expected behavior? Our preference would be for the ebook to show as checked out as well, even though there's no guarantee that this particular item was desired or read by the patron and we may have to make adjustments to our circulation statistics.
Link to the ebook record: http://catalog.splnh.com/cgi-bin/koha/opac-detail.pl?biblionumber=25778
Link to the ereader record: http://catalog.splnh.com/cgi-bin/koha/opac-detail.pl?biblionumber=25777
Thanks for your thoughts.
Cab Vinton, Director Sanbornton Public Library Sanbornton, NH
Life is short. Read fast! _______________________________________________ Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha
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