[Koha] Koha 3.0 : item types, collections etc and OPAC findability

[Owen Leonard]

> 2b. icon : how should these be selected or assigned? Are these the GMD
> indicators? This definition or use works when looking at the 'bridge' set of
> icons but does not work for the other icon sets ie Liblime kids and
> Nelsonville.

The icons are not designed *specifically* for any category. The npl
set contains the icons I created for NPL's specific collections, and
they're contributed with the hope that they might be useful to others.
But not many people really need the outline of the state of Ohio on
their icon for "Local History:"

http://acpl.kohalibrary.com/opac-tmpl/prog/itemtypeimg/npl/Local-history.gif

> Only the extended search in the staff interface is able to differentiate
> between fiction or non-fiction or biography (marc fields 008 - 33) or
> juvenile, young adult or adult (008 - 22) Is that correct?

At some point along the way we lost some of the finer advanced search
controls in the OPAC. There has been talk of reviving them in some
form but so far it's only talk.

> 7. Are there any other areas which could usefully help a borrower physically
> locate an item in the library, using the catalogue?

I'm thinking "Shelving Location," which could easily be set up as an
authorized value and tied to your 952 tag. The disadvantage being that
changing an item's shelving location means editing the item record.
High on my Koha wish list is a means of quickly setting an item's
shelving location with an interface like the Transfers interface. Some
changes to items shouldn't be limited to those with cataloging
privileges.

  -- Owen

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