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

[Nigel Titley]

On Tue, 2003-03-25 at 20:45, Rachel Hamilton-Williams wrote:
> Hi Nigel
> 
> Sorry I should have asked which version of Koha you're using.

1.2.3

> 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).

I'll be upgrading as soon as it enters production :-)
 
> If your using the 1.2 series, then the options are as you've listed

Thanks

> 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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