[Koha] Help with item locations

[Bigwood, David]

Chris,
 
You might want to place the location in 852b, Sublocation or collection. The specific department, library, collection, etc., within the holding organization in which the item is located or from which it is available.
 
It does look like they are using some Dewey. 598.4 TAT sure looks like a Dewey number. If it is, the 598.4 would go in 852h and the TAT in 852i. You can also use 852k - Call number prefix or 852m - Call number suffix if the library is using them.
 
Placing the data in several different subfields will be much more work.
 
Sincerely,
David Bigwood
bigwood at lpi.usra.edu <mailto:bigwood at lpi.usra.edu> 
Lunar & Planetary Institute
Cataloging News: http://www.catalogablog.blogspot.com <http://www.catalogablog.blogspot.com> 

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	From: koha-admin at lists.katipo.co.nz on behalf of Chris Hobbs 
	Sent: Thu 1/22/2004 2:13 PM 
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	Subject: [Koha] Help with item locations
	
	

	(Caveat: I am a geek, not a librarian, so my apologies if my thinking is
	muddled on some of this...)
	
	I am attempting to convert one of our elementary schools from a
	home-grown flat-file database to Koha, but I am running into problems
	with keeeping track of where books are in the library, something which
	would have been trivial had the site used Dewey decimal, but instead
	they are using a home-made cataloging scheme, with entries such as "CS",
	"E READER", "E OEC RDR", "598.4  TAT" (that one looks like dewey), etc.
	The point is that they are text fields.
	
	When converting from their old system to MARC records (using MarcEdit),
	I pulled this info over into 852c ("Shelving location"), which seemed
	like a reasonable place to put it, and I added that field to the Koha
	MARC editor layout, which works as expected.
	
	However, I discovered when I tried to link 852c to the biblioitems.dewey
	Koha field (in the hopes that the location would show up in the OPAC
	view of the biblio), that the dewey field is a number, not a text field,
	so they are all being converted to 0.0000.
	
	Any suggestions on how best to resolve this?
	
	Thanks in advance,
	
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