[Koha] Very naive question from a non-librarian (summary)

[Rachel Hamilton-Williams]

Hi Nigel

Sorry I should have asked which version of Koha you're using.

If you're using the MARC one, then a whole world of opportunity opens up for 
you (although it's not ready for production yet).

If your using the 1.2 series, then the options are as you've listed

Cheers
Rachel

> On Mon, 2003-03-24 at 15:19, Nigel Titley wrote:
> > Folks,
> > 
> > This is probably going to sound like a very simple question to the real
> > librarians amongst you, but I'd like a little guidance if anyone can
> > spare the time.
> > 
> > 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?
> 
> I've had a number of kind replies from various folk on the list, which I
> summarise here:
> 
> 1. Designate each of my bookcases as "branches" and use this to indicate
> the location of a volume
> 
> 2. Use the "classification" field to specify the bookcase (the
> suggestion was to designate each bookcase with an alphabetic character).
> This then ends up being concatenated with the Dewey Number and the
> subclass to make a combined class which can be used to find the
> appropriate bookshelf.
> 
> 3. Use the "notes" field, which can contain anything, to indicate the
> bookcase.
> 
> My thoughts on this are:
> 
> 1. Rather overkill, and shuts off the avenue of being able to set up
> real remote branches (books in the office for example).
> 
> 2. Looks good. Only slight problem is that I will have to learn the
> basics of Dewey in order to roughly classify those books which I don't
> have a Dewey number for. However I don't mind this.
> 
> 3. Possible, but the notes field is being used for other things, and
> isn't searchable. 
> 
> I will probably end up going for method 2.
> 
> Thanks again to those who replied
> 
> All the best
> 
> Nigel
> 
> 
> 
> 
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