[Koha] Export MARC from Koha

[Steve/Ollie/Steven F. Baljkas]

Wednesday, April 21, 2004   20:43 CDT

Greetings, all!

Just a few quick observations re: your comments, Rachel.

There are ILS that do export borrower data, although I kinda doubt that their users intend for them to do so.

Ex. 1. When I was trying to help out Doc a few months ago, the samples he sent me included the name and patron barcode of the last student borrower of a book (overdue, tsk, tsk) embedded in an 852 tag.

Ex. 2. At my second-last cataloguing gig, my supervisor and I both noticed that records we downloaded from the University of California's MELVYL system (sorry, I don't know which ILS it really is, or if that name is in fact for a proprietary in-house ILS) encoded such data in 94x fields IIRC (it was definitely 9xx).

Now, I don't know how the privacy laws are shaping up in New Zealand, but I know there would be legal issues in Canada, especially if an academic or public library accidentally shared data in the way that Doc's or the U of California's systems (accidentally) did. In fact, the issue would be one of actionable breach of various privacy acts, something most library administrators would wisely want to avoid.

It might be useful, though, if that data could be transferred over for migration purposes but remained visible ONLY for inside use.

Again, being ignorant of programming complexities, I don't know if it is practical to do such a thing, or even possible. You would need to have some form of filter that would strip out such information before sharing cataloguing but that would allow access to that same information to authorised internal administrators/staff.

Anyway, just a few thoughts. The 9xx fields would remain available in MARC21 should you wish to include such data, as they are designated for system-specific features.

Cheers,
Steven F. Baljkas
library tech at large
Koha neophyte
Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

> From: "Rachel Hamilton-Williams" <rachel at katipo.co.nz>
> Date: 2004/04/21 Wed PM 09:20:19 CDT
> To: koha at lists.katipo.co.nz
> Subject: Re: [Koha] Export MARC from Koha
> 
> Hi
>
> > > 2 - Which datas are exported ?
> > 
> > It should be possible to export all. If you are sure things are 
> > missing, let us know, I'll test and make sure it gets recorded.
> 
> If you're exporting data I assume that the MARC export only does the catalogue 
> records - so it doesn't do
> - Borrowers/patron records
> - Finacial records?
> - Reserves
> 
> Do you think it would be a good idea to have a method for exporting this data 
> as well?
> 
> Cheers
> Rachel
> 
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