[Koha] How to search by Language on OPAC?

[Ben Ide]

The list of 3-letter codes for this field is rather extensive:
http://www.loc.gov/marc/languages/langhome.html

But I suppose it wouldn't be too difficult to add a drop-down field
for advance search that at least covers some of the major languages:

Language	Code
English	eng
French	fre
German	ger
Greek	grc
Italian	ita
Latin	lat
Multiple (text in more than one language)	mul
Portuguese	por
Russian	rus
Spanish	spa
Undetermined	und
Items with no text (e.g. instrumental music scores, all illustrated	Blank

(from http://tinyurl.com/kpupn4 )

That would append "ln:[3-letter code]" to your search.  For example:
http://hartford.waldo.kohalibrary.com/cgi-bin/koha/opac-search.pl?q=monde+and+ln:fre

Thanks,
-- Ben

2009/9/21 Kohn, Karen <kohnk at arcadia.edu>:
> I am having the same problem.  A faculty member just asked the other day for
> a list of books in certain languages, so I was glad to see Melisa’s
> question.   I’d like to figure out if this is a bug, or if there’s something
> I can do as an administrator (i.e., not a coder) to fix it.  If anyone knows
> of a workaround for now, that would be good, too.
>
> Thanks.
>
>
>
> Karen Kohn
>
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> From: koha-bounces at lists.katipo.co.nz
> [mailto:koha-bounces at lists.katipo.co.nz] On Behalf Of Melisa Canales
> Sent: Friday, September 18, 2009 12:17 PM
> To: Nicole Engard
> Cc: koha
> Subject: Re: [Koha] How to search by Language on OPAC?
>
>
>
> Thanks Nicole.  I think I've still got something wrong.  Our framework
> didn't have a 008 field so I created one.  Now when I'm editing a record I
> have the "..." next to the field and when I click on it I am able to enter
> the 3-character language code in 35-37.  But whenever I try to search by
> Language I am getting "No Results found."
>
> On a side note, we were wondering if our patrons would have to use the
> 3-character code when searching in the OPAC.  We want them to be able to
> enter "French" for example.  Would that work?
>
> Thank you,
> Melisa
>
> On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 7:17 PM, Nicole Engard <nengard at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> This is pulling from the language coded in the leader -
> http://www.oclc.org/bibformats/en/fixedfield/default.shtm
>
> 2009/9/17 Melisa Canales <mcanales29 at gmail.com>:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> On the OPAC Advanced Search page one of the search options on the drop
>> down
>> list is "Language."  Our collection contains a lot of foreign language
>> films
>> and it was my understanding we could use this field to search for all
>> films
>> in a particular language.  Does anyone know the MARC tag that links to
>> this
>> search field?  I've tried different ones, but have been unable to find the
>> right one.  Or maybe my understanding of the search field is incorrect...
>>
>> Thank you,
>> Melisa Canales
>>
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