[Koha] Export MARC from Koha

[Stephen Hedges]

Don't forget that Koha let's you store item data anywhere you want to -- so 
long as you tell Koha where to find it by setting up your MARC to Koha links.  
At Nelsonville, we use a 9xx tag for all this data, but you could just as 
easily use 876 or 37, or any other (repeatable) tag.  The choice belongs to the 
user, and is not controlled by Koha.

Stephen Hedges
Nelsonville Public Library

> Sunday, April 25, 2004  16:11 CDT
> 
> Hi, Dave,
> 
> I can see what you mean about tags 876-878.
> 
> Most of the records I've seen here don't do 
> anything towards keeping acquisitions data (which 
> is a shame), but when they do they invariably 
> avoid using the holdings data tags you recommend 
> (from what I see, I wonder if NLC had a policy of 
> using them only for serials) and instead have 
> opted for the tag 37 (which is flexible enough to 
> handle the important information and the limits 
> of which encourage one to remember not to collude 
> 2 or more different editions of works) or more 
> frequently use a 5xx number (sometimes one not 
> specifically allowed) to keep the information 
> they want.
> 
> As library manager for a highschool library, I 
> had to insist with my 'assistant' that such info 
> not be encoded as a general public note (in 500) 
> which is what someone had recommended to her 
> prior to my appointment (not the kind of 
> information we wanted highschool students to 
> have: 'oh, this only cost $2.50, I can afford to 
> lose it' problem).
> 
> The Athena system we were using already encoded 
> data to an 852 (with unauthorised uses of various 
> subfields, including a creative $w - we couldn't 
> find any way to change these peculiarities) and 
> so we used 37 (repeating for each copy as 
> necessary, $n beginning with barcode to ID 
> specific copy) for the additional data we 
> wanted.
> 
> It would perhaps be good to recommend to users to 
> adopt use of the 876-878 fields but still leave 
> open the option of 37 for others. Smaller 
> libraries, especially school ones, often don't 
> have more than one copy of many works.
> 
> Could someone from development tell us where/how 
> Koha is storing that more detailed acquisitions 
> information and if it could be integrated into 
> the MARC tag structure that Dave suggests in one 
> of the near future releases?
> 
> Cheers,
> Steven F. Baljkas
> library tech at large
> Koha neophyte
> Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
> 
> > From: "Bigwood, David" <bigwood at lpi.usra.edu>
> > Date: 2004/04/25 Sun PM 03:23:40 CDT
> > To: <koha at lists.katipo.co.nz>
> > Subject: RE: Re: [Koha] Export MARC from Koha
> > 
> > Fields 876-878 are a better choice to include 
> acquisitions data. It includes the cost for each 
> copy, different copies can have been purchased at 
> different prices, or one could be a gift. It also 
> includes where it was purchased, date acquired, 
> item status and other subfields available for 
> each copy.
> > 
> > Field 037 is repeatable but not linked to each 
> copy in the same manner.
> > 
> > Sincerely,
> > David Bigwood
> > bigwood at lpi.usra.edu
> > Lunar & Planetary Institute
> > 
> http://www.lpi.usra.edu/library/whats_new.shtml
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> > 
> > 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: koha-admin at lists.katipo.co.nz
> > [mailto:koha-admin at lists.katipo.co.nz]On Behalf 
> Of Steve/Ollie/Steven F.
> > Baljkas
> > Sent: Friday, April 23, 2004 5:39 PM
> > To: Chris Cormack; MJ Ray
> > Cc: koha at lists.katipo.co.nz
> > Subject: Re: Re: [Koha] Export MARC from Koha
> > 
> > 
> > Friday, April 23, 2004    17:30 CDT
> > 
> > Hi, Chris et al.,
> > 
> > > Hi Guys
> > > 
> > > Theres also the budget data if using full 
> acquisitions. This might be
> > > useful to export also.
> > 
> > Regarding the budget information kept in full 
> acquisitions mode, I have to confess I haven't 
> looked at that function, but there is a MARC tag 
> available for item cost: tag 37.
> > 
> > I agree that budgetary info would be useful to 
> transfer, for a whole host of reasons (not the 
> least of which is providing a base for 
> determining replacement cost should an item be 
> lost).
> > 
> > As for fines, maybe I am just (too) grateful 
> when things have been returned: rather than 
> fussing about transferring fines, I'd suggest 
> using the occasion of migration to offer an 
> 'amnesty', something my local public library 
> system does at irregular intervals (not dependent 
> on system upgrades) and it seems to have a 
> positive effect.
> > 
> > > > >I don't know what is meant exactly by 
> 'financial records' but I am assuming
> > > > >that that is a euphemism for fines. Same 
> as paragraph above.
> > > > 
> > > > I doubt that these can be exported in a 
> useful way, but I could be wrong.
> > > > Adding the ability to trigger code on fines 
> to notify another accounting system
> > > > may be interesting to someone.
> > 
> > Maybe if one adopted one of the neat ideas Dave 
> Bigwood suggested (thanks Dave, I think what you 
> suggested would be super) there would be some way 
> of transferring the fine information (if 
> substantial at least) to the patron file format? 
> Anyway, just another two cents worth.
> > 
> > Cheers,
> > Steven F. Baljkas
> > library tech at large
> > Koha neophyte
> > Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
> 
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