[Koha] LCCN, group

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YOU WROTE >>>>  William, Koha works best with Dewey.

I think at this point it  works ONLY with Dewey....  Hopefully  soon  it will 
work with both LC and Dewey!

Ed!
> Subj: RE: [Koha] LCCN, group 
>  Date: 9/5/2003 11:53:53 AM US Mountain Standard Time
>  From: <A HREF="mailto:shedges at skemotah.com">shedges at skemotah.com</A>
>  To: <A HREF="mailto:Bigwood at lpi.usra.edu">Bigwood at lpi.usra.edu</A>
>  CC: <A HREF="mailto:koha at purity.com.ph">koha at purity.com.ph</A>, <A HREF="mailto:koha at lists.katipo.co.nz">koha at lists.katipo.co.nz</A>
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> 
> 
> Bigwood, David said:
> >TK5105.888. D35 2000 is the Library of Congress Classification number. The
> >1st part goes into field 050 subfield a, D35 2000 goes in subfield b. If
> >you
> >use that as your call number it may also go in field 852, which contains
> >local copy information.
> >
> >005.7'2 --dc21 is the Dewey Classification number. The 1st part goes in
> >field 082 subfield a. dc21 specifies which edition is being used and goes
> >in
> >subfield 2. If you use Dewey for your call numbers it would also go in
> >field
> >852.
> 
> William, Koha works best with Dewey.  You'll probably want to map the
> actual number part of the Dewey number to Koha field 'dewey' in the
> biblioitems table.  In the same table, you can map anything that comes
> after the number (the first few letters of an author's name is a common
> example) to the 'subclass' field in the same table.  And if you have
> anything before the number (like 'J' for Juvenile, or 'LP' for Large
> Print), that can go in the 'classification' field.  I believe that's the
> way Horowhenua Library Trust (http://www.library.org.nz) does it.
> 
> In the case of Nelsonville Public Library, the actual call number used by
> the library was stored in a holdings tag, but in a 952 tag, not the 852
> tag.  Many ILS programs use the option of 9xx tags to store holdings
> information, because these tags are more flexible than the
> closely-regulated 852 tags.  So at NPL (http://www.athenscounty.lib.oh.us)
> the entire call number was mapped to the 'classification' field as the
> data was migrated from the old system to Koha.  I'm not sure how the call
> numbers at Unido (http://www.unido.org) are stored -- they may have used
> yet another method.
> 
> One word of warning -- if you decide to map the call number from an
> existing holdings tag, you will need to split the existing tag into two
> tags, so you can map one to the items table and the other to fields in the
> biblioitems table.  This isn't too hard to do with MARC::Record.
> 
> By the way, the little ' in the Dewey number from LC (005.7'2) is not part
> of the number.  It's an indication of the appropriate spot to truncate the
> call number if you don't want to use the whole thing.
> 
> -- 
> Stephen Hedges
> Skemotah Solutions, USA
> www.skemotah.com  --  shedges at skemotah.com
> 
> >The - is dropped from the LC Control number when it is entered in field
> >010.
> >
> >Sincerely,
> >David Bigwood
> >bigwood at lpi.usra.edu
> >Lunar &Planetary Institute
> >Cataloging news: http://www.catalogablog

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