[Koha] Publisher Authority Type

[Krishna K]

Hi Koha community and Heather,

What is the best practice to use Authority Type for Publisher ?  We are
facing some challenges(we are using 16.05). Request further inputs from
this forum.

1. We want to use Authority type to have a list of all publisher details.
Authorized Value would not be good as we have hundreds of publishers. We
tried to use existing Authority Type CORPO NAME. For this, we created a few
authority records against CORPO NAME authority type and entered the name of
the publisher in 110a tag in the authority record. In the biblio framework,
against 260 b subfield supposed to be for publisher, we chose Other
Option-Thesaurus and chose CORPO NAME.  When we try to create a catalog as
per this framework and come to 260b - we are able to search the CORPO NAME
Authority records and choose the name of a publisher. As soon as we choose,
the publisher name appears against 260a!!! We dont know why this happens.
The authority type is mapped to 260 b but the selected authority name goes
to 260a meant for Place of Publish. Has anyone faced this issue ? What
should we do to ensure the selected entry appears against 260b ?

2.  Heather Hernandez had suggested(thank you Heather) we use 710 to use
the CORPO Name authority for Publisher. In practically every Koha library
MARC record I have accessed, the publisher info is in 260b. If this was
transcribed data, Heather, wouldnt the 710 contain the publisher data ? I
wasnt able to find it in 710 in any of the libraries. And today I came to
know that 700, 710 and 711 are mapped to Author for search purposes.

On Wed, Feb 22, 2017 at 11:00 PM Hernandez, Heather <
heather_hernandez at nps.gov> wrote:

> Hi, Krishna!
>
> The data in the 260 field (or the 264) is transcribed data--it should be
> transcribed from the item, and may not be the same as the authorized form
> of the publisher's name in the authority file.  For example, a book may
> have on the title page (made up example):
>
> "Oxford at the University Press 2016."
>
> This could be transcribed as:
>
> 260 _ _ $a Oxford : $b University Press, $c 2016.
>
> But the authorized form of the name of this publisher in the authority
> file in OCLC & the Library of Congress is:
>
> 110 2_ Oxford University Press.
>
> So the record would have a 710 field with the authorized form of the name
> for searching, access, etc.:
>
> 710 2_ Oxford University Press.
>
> The 260 $b and the 710 may be identical, but not necessarily.  The
> transcription becomes important when trying to identify particular
> editions, printings, etc., especially in special collections, with rare
> materials, etc.
>
> I hope this helps clarify!  Cheers,
> h2
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> Heather Hernandez
> Technical Services Librarian
> San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park Research Center
> 2 Marina Blvd., Bldg. E, 3rd floor, San Francisco, CA  94123-1284
> 415-561-7032 <(415)%20561-7032>, heather_hernandez at nps.gov
> http://www.nps.gov/safr/learn/historyculture/museum-collections.htm
>
> "The sailor does not pray for wind, he learns to sail."--Gustaf Lindborg
>
-- 
Regards,
Krishna