[Koha] Some questions on Koha and MARC

[Steven F. Baljkas]

Sunday, August 1, 2004     21:30 CDT

Hi, Stephen,

Thanks for the rapid response.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Stephen Hedges" <shedges at skemotah.com>
To: "Steven F. Baljkas" <baljkas at mb.sympatico.ca>
Cc: "Joshua Ferraro" <jferraro at athenscounty.lib.oh.us>;
<koha at lists.katipo.co.nz>; <baljkas at mts.net>
Sent: Sunday, August 01, 2004 7:14 PM
Subject: Re: [Koha] Some questions on Koha and MARC


> Steven F. Baljkas said:
> <snip>
> > At the time, I was intending to delineate the complete MARC21 field
> > structure, but then I thought (erroneously?) that it wouldn't be
available
> > for anyone actually to use so what would be the point.
>
> Steven, do you mean you were trying to get all 1,150 MARC tags and
> subfields that are defined in Koha 2.0 to display?

No, that wasn't what I meant, Stephen.

What I had understood was that all of the tags one wanted to be able to use
in Koha had to be defined in the MARC tag structure under Parameters, that
any fields not listed there would be lost, so that they would be potentially
displayable, usable behind the scenes at least.

# From Chris Cormack's answer to Eric on another matter, I gather that I
misunderstood. What is the purpose of defining the MARC tag structure under
Parameters then?

This relates to a subsequent question in that list you tackled as I also
wanted to know how to go about configuring which MARC fields would display
for patrons in the OPAC.

As long as I had access through a MARC editor to say, 583 (Action) notes, I
probably wouldn't want anyone else to see them on the OPAC. However, I
wouldn't want Koha to lose them in importing records.

> Because if so, the easiest way would be to do a mysql:
>
> mysql>update marc_subfield_structure set tab=0;
>
> But the result would be a _very long_ webpage!

Thank you for this. It is always good to know.

Thanks again for your help.

Steven F. Baljkas
library tech at large
Koha neophyte
Winnipeg, MB, Canada


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