[Koha] Cataloguing articles within serials

[Nelson Fredsell -CCE]

Thank you, Joy, for the detailed explanation.  

A responding question I put to Verónica Lencinas in Argentina is whether I
would enter both a serial and its articles as main items.  To try and be
clear, a serial with 10 articles would then result in 11 main entries in the
ILS.  Would this confuse patrons?  However, I suspect it would be preferable
to do it this way as opposed to 1 main item with 10 entries in TOC 505
repeatable fields so that both Keyword *and* Subject fields could be used
for an article, and therefore more searchable by patrons.

Take care,
Nelson

Centre for Creative Education
Cape Town, South Africa
www.cfce.org.za 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Banks, Joy M [mailto:jbanks at flsouthern.edu]
> Sent: 17 March 2009 03:14 PM
> To: Nelson Fredsell
> Subject: RE: [Koha] Cataloguing articles within serials
> 
> Nelson-
> 
> I've done this at least once for a faculty article in a journal to
> which we don't subscribe. To view that record, go here:
> http://fsc.kohalibrary.com/cgi-bin/koha/opac-
> detail.pl?biblionumber=140301
> 
> You can view the MARC to see how exactly I formatted it. I received
> some help from other OCLC libraries building the bib, so I'm pretty
> confident that it follows the "rules." While your original post didn't
> exactly say if you wanted the article as the main entry (as opposed to
> the journal), this example show how you can make the article the main
> entry.
> 
> If you are looking to keep the original item (the book, journal,
> whatever) that the article is in as the main entry, than the 505 field
> (Table of Contents) would be the place to put it. I've found that the
> unformatted table of contents field (505 0_) works a little bit better
> with the indexing of Koha. We're a hosted system, though, so that might
> make a difference. For an example of how that looks, go here:
> http://fsc.kohalibrary.com/cgi-bin/koha/opac-
> detail.pl?biblionumber=134277. This has an unformatted contents note in
> the "Description" tab. That means it's not putting the chapter titles
> and authors into any index, but they are all still accessible through
> keyword searching. You can also see the MARC for this record as well.
> 
> I hope this helps.
> 
> ~Joy
> 
> Joy M. Banks
> Catalog Librarian
> Florida Southern College
> 111 Lake Hollingsworth Dr.
> Lakeland, FL 33801
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