Koha OPAC can retreive books by languages looking at the 041 field. In the (non advanced) search put, for example <div>ln:'eng'</div><div>and you will get all the documents with eng in the 041 field. </div><div><br>
</div><div>regards, </div><div>Alejandro</div><div> <br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 12:29 PM, Ben Ide <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:benide@gmail.com">benide@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">The list of 3-letter codes for this field is rather extensive:<br>
<a href="http://www.loc.gov/marc/languages/langhome.html" target="_blank">http://www.loc.gov/marc/languages/langhome.html</a><br>
<br>
But I suppose it wouldn't be too difficult to add a drop-down field<br>
for advance search that at least covers some of the major languages:<br>
<br>
Language Code<br>
English eng<br>
French fre<br>
German ger<br>
Greek grc<br>
Italian ita<br>
Latin lat<br>
Multiple (text in more than one language) mul<br>
Portuguese por<br>
Russian rus<br>
Spanish spa<br>
Undetermined und<br>
Items with no text (e.g. instrumental music scores, all illustrated Blank<br>
<br>
(from <a href="http://tinyurl.com/kpupn4" target="_blank">http://tinyurl.com/kpupn4</a> )<br>
<br>
That would append "ln:[3-letter code]" to your search. For example:<br>
<a href="http://hartford.waldo.kohalibrary.com/cgi-bin/koha/opac-search.pl?q=monde+and+ln:fre" target="_blank">http://hartford.waldo.kohalibrary.com/cgi-bin/koha/opac-search.pl?q=monde+and+ln:fre</a><br>
<br>
Thanks,<br>
-- Ben<br>
<br>
2009/9/21 Kohn, Karen <<a href="mailto:kohnk@arcadia.edu">kohnk@arcadia.edu</a>>:<br>
<div><div></div><div class="h5">> I am having the same problem. A faculty member just asked the other day for<br>
> a list of books in certain languages, so I was glad to see Melisa’s<br>
> question. I’d like to figure out if this is a bug, or if there’s something<br>
> I can do as an administrator (i.e., not a coder) to fix it. If anyone knows<br>
> of a workaround for now, that would be good, too.<br>
><br>
> Thanks.<br>
><br>
><br>
><br>
> Karen Kohn<br>
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> From: <a href="mailto:koha-bounces@lists.katipo.co.nz">koha-bounces@lists.katipo.co.nz</a><br>
> [mailto:<a href="mailto:koha-bounces@lists.katipo.co.nz">koha-bounces@lists.katipo.co.nz</a>] On Behalf Of Melisa Canales<br>
> Sent: Friday, September 18, 2009 12:17 PM<br>
> To: Nicole Engard<br>
> Cc: koha<br>
> Subject: Re: [Koha] How to search by Language on OPAC?<br>
><br>
><br>
><br>
> Thanks Nicole. I think I've still got something wrong. Our framework<br>
> didn't have a 008 field so I created one. Now when I'm editing a record I<br>
> have the "..." next to the field and when I click on it I am able to enter<br>
> the 3-character language code in 35-37. But whenever I try to search by<br>
> Language I am getting "No Results found."<br>
><br>
> On a side note, we were wondering if our patrons would have to use the<br>
> 3-character code when searching in the OPAC. We want them to be able to<br>
> enter "French" for example. Would that work?<br>
><br>
> Thank you,<br>
> Melisa<br>
><br>
> On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 7:17 PM, Nicole Engard <<a href="mailto:nengard@gmail.com">nengard@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
><br>
> This is pulling from the language coded in the leader -<br>
> <a href="http://www.oclc.org/bibformats/en/fixedfield/default.shtm" target="_blank">http://www.oclc.org/bibformats/en/fixedfield/default.shtm</a><br>
><br>
> 2009/9/17 Melisa Canales <<a href="mailto:mcanales29@gmail.com">mcanales29@gmail.com</a>>:<br>
><br>
>> Hello,<br>
>><br>
>> On the OPAC Advanced Search page one of the search options on the drop<br>
>> down<br>
>> list is "Language." Our collection contains a lot of foreign language<br>
>> films<br>
>> and it was my understanding we could use this field to search for all<br>
>> films<br>
>> in a particular language. Does anyone know the MARC tag that links to<br>
>> this<br>
>> search field? I've tried different ones, but have been unable to find the<br>
>> right one. Or maybe my understanding of the search field is incorrect...<br>
>><br>
>> Thank you,<br>
>> Melisa Canales<br>
>><br>
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