[Koha] Library of Congress call number

[dmoses2 at uwo.ca]

Hello:
I'm am new to the list and Koha. I'm a MLIS student and I'll be testing and 
implementing Koha this semester for an independent study course. Could you add 
a field (eg. lcnumber ) to the BIBLIOITEMS table yourself and link the related 
MARC field in the MARC_SUBFIELD_TABLE to it? Then modify the templates to 
display the field? Or is this accomplished already with the biblionumber and 
biblioitemnumber fields in BIBLIOITEMS? They reference the MARC 090 field 
(local call number) and the c and d subfields respectively (I've never seen 
those myself ... only a and b subfields). See 
http://lists.katipo.co.nz/public/koha/2003/002349.html for discussion about the 
090 issue. The collection I'm going to be converting uses LC call numbers (some 
in the 050 field, some in the 055 field, and many in the 090 field), so this is 
a functionality that I'd like to see. Sorry if this sounds confused. 
Regards,
Donald
dmoses2 at uwo.ca

On 2004-01-08 17:43:52 +0000 "Han, Yan" <hany at u.library.arizona.edu> 
wrote:

> I heard that Koha does not support Library of Congress Call number. 
> Is this
> true? If so, I am not quite understand if it is difficult to support 
> this
> feature.

MJ Ray <mjr at dsl.pipex.com> replied:

Koha has partial support for it, through the MARC records, but can't 
currently do much useful with it. I do not know whether it is 
difficult, either. Some notes about this bug are on 
http://bugs.koha.org/cgi-bin/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=498 but more 
useful notes (such as what needs changing to support it) are welcome. 
Personally, I have no immediate plans to work on this, but I don't 
know whether any developers do.