[Koha] Library of Congress call number

[Denise Sharp]

I would like to add my plea for Library of Congress call numbers.  I am 
going to be giving a presentation about Koha at a library conference in 
February.  There could be anywhere from 100-150 people attending my 
presentation and I'm told that most of them are from academic libraries. 
  Most academic libraries use LOC call numbers, so I'd like to be able 
to tell them that this is a functionality that is at least being worked 
on.    I would be happy to give credit at the presentation to anyone who 
says they will work on this.  Thank you!

--Denise Sharp


dmoses2 at uwo.ca wrote:
> 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.
> 
> 
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