[Koha] Very naive question from a non-librarian (resent from the right email address)

[Erik Stainsby]

Nigel,

The model used in my employment (a public Library based on the 
commercial [and horribly expensive] Dynix software), is that each shelf 
in each subject division (broadly speaking) has a "collection code".

JFIC (Juvenile fiction) corresponds to a set of shelves in the 
Children's area of the building, and J+FIC (slightly older) is somewhere 
in the same locale, but a distinct subset of materials.  Within each 
"coll code" on a set of shelves, the titles are organized in alpha or 
Dewey order.

The collection codes form an overlay applied on the physical spaces, but 
are not themselves part of the bibliographic data.  Rather they describe 
collection management.

I am afraid I do not know the specifics of Koha well enough to steer you 
further, nor even to state if Koha has such a feature set as of yet.

I hope this helps rather than muddies the discussion.

- Erik



Rachel Hamilton-Williams wrote:
> Hi
> 
> 
>>I'm using Koha to catalogue our family book collection (I hesitate to
>>call it a library). Its about 3000 or so volumes and scattered through
>>various book cases throughout the house. It is vaguely organised by
>>various criteria, like size, suitability for children (low shelves),
>>fiction (by author), non-fiction (roughly by subject) etc. What I would
>>like Koha to tell me is where (bookcase) each volume is located. Which
>>would be the appropriate field in the biblioitem to store this
>>information?
> 
> 
> It would seem to me that you have a couple of options... some more sane than 
> others :-)
> 
> You could set up each shelf as a "branch" unless you plan to catalogue books in 
> your friends & relatives houses - in which case you should save branch for 
> them.
> 
> I think in an actual library, the class (or itemtype) is what usually 
> determines what shelf an item is on - so they have fiction, junior fiction etc 
> and they all tend to be shelved together.
> 
> So you could do that.
> 
> Steve has been doing work on virtual bookshelves - I'm not sure if that would 
> suit your requirements, as you're talking about actual bookshelves.
> 
> Or there is always the notes - where you can put whatever you want.
> 
> Cheers
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