[Koha] Music notation or printed music - how to make it obvious

[Nicole Engard]

There are comments on that page to that effect - and a bug report you
should watch/update with things you find:
http://bugs.koha.org/cgi-bin/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=3293

Nicole

On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 12:45 PM, Elaine Bradtke
<bradtke.e at googlemail.com> wrote:
> Aha, so it does use the leader info!  I was confused by legacy
> information on an older version of Koha.
> However. . . I would like to point out that in MARC 21, leader 6 c is
> "notated music", and the display says "sound" (and the icon implies
> sound). I think calling music notation "sound" is worse than leaving
> the information out altogether.
> Thanks for the pointer. Any chance sound can be corrected  to music,
> with perhaps a different icon?
> Elaine Bradtke
>
> On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 4:33 PM, Nicole Engard <nengard at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Elaine,
>>
>> I found it: http://koha.org/documentation/manual/3.2/opac/xslt/item-type-display
>>
>> Nicole
>>
>> On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 12:27 PM, Nicole Engard <nengard at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Elaine,
>>>
>>> If you turn on XSLT stylesheets in your OPAC you will actually see a
>>> music symbol on the search results and I think on the bib record
>>> detail page itself.  I'm off to try a test for you to get you an image
>>> of what it will look like.
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>> Nicole
>>>
>>> On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 12:00 PM, Elaine Bradtke
>>> <bradtke.e at googlemail.com> wrote:
>>>> For some reason, in all the years that our little library has been in
>>>> existence, no one has bothered to specify when a publication is
>>>> primarily music notation.  I'm changing this as we migrate to Koha
>>>> (nearly half our stuff is music notation), but before I take the
>>>> plunge I need to think about how it will work, and what it will look
>>>> like.
>>>>
>>>> It's my understanding that Koha stores Leader information, but does
>>>> nothing with it, is this correct?
>>>>
>>>> I want something that will show up clearly, is easily spotted. Not
>>>> buried somewhere in the physical description or down in a notes field.
>>>>  I'm disinclined to use general material designations, but that could
>>>> be one way.  The other thought was item type. Collections seem less
>>>> intuitive somehow, and as we have lots of special collections which
>>>> might contain individual publications of music notation, I'm not sure
>>>> if that works.
>>>> Anyone with experience in this?
>>>> Thanks
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Elaine Bradtke
>>>> EFDSS
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>>>
>>
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> --
> Elaine
>