[Koha] How to search by Language on OPAC?

[Alejandro Tiraboschi]

Koha OPAC can retreive books by languages looking at the 041 field. In the
(non advanced) search put, for example ln:'eng'
and you will get all the documents with eng in the 041 field.

regards,
Alejandro


On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 12:29 PM, Ben Ide <benide at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
> >
> > Collection Development Manager
> >
> > Landman Library
> >
> > Arcadia University
> >
> > 450 S. Easton Road
> >
> > Glenside, PA  19038
> >
> > ph: 215-572-8528
> >
> > fax: 215-572-0240
> >
> >
> >
> > 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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