[Koha] LCCN, group

[Greg Lambert/Amigos]

AMEN TO THAT!!!

What can those of us that use LC do to help this become a reality????

-Greg



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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: shedges at skemotah.com
 To: Bigwood at lpi.usra.edu
 CC: koha at purity.com.ph, koha at lists.katipo.co.nz
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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