[Koha] field for capturing lanaguage

Tomas Cohen Arazi tomascohen at gmail.com
Wed Jan 4 03:22:13 NZDT 2012


2012/1/3 amutsikiwa <amutsikiwa at uzlib.uz.ac.zw>
>
> Hi
>
>  I have materials in different languages.  I am in the process of importing the
> materials into koha. Which koha field should I use for language of the  material?

You need to first choose a cataloguing format, as MARC21, UNIMARC and
NORMARC (only one) has to be used in your Koha.
In MARC21 for example that information is encoded inside the 008 field.

Choose "Vista MARC" here to see an example (you will see a 'spa'
meaning spanish there):
http://bmayor.biblio.unc.edu.ar/cgi-bin/koha/opac-detail.pl?biblionumber=3608


Regards
To+


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