[Koha] Koha's call number vs. our library's call number

[Stephen Hedges]

I'd recommend you put your call number in biblioitems.classification and
not mess with dewey (everything should still work OK).  Use some sort of
unique numbering system for barcode.   -- SH

Hans Henderson said:
> As I mentioned in my "hierarchical question" posting, the shelf
> ordering system for one of our book item types (graded readers) is by
> reading difficulty level.
>
> To accommodate this, I've created an alphanumeric local call number
> unique to each item (copy of a title) I'm also using this as a
> barcode number. the first part of the number shows the level, then
> the set, then the titles, and then the individual copies. So Q010A04
> means "the fourth copy of title A in set 010 at reading difficulty
> level Q".
>
> I plan to put this local call number into Koha's barcode field in the
> items table, and link that field to MARC 852c - please confirm I got
> at least that right, or should I use a 9xx?
>
> But I see that the *Koha* call number field is numeric. Can we just
> leave the Koha call number field empty?
>
> I saw Chris Cormack's tip on changing the dewey column's data type to
> varchar within SQL, but messing with the internals at my current
> newbie level makes me a bit nervous. Plus, I will be pulling in
> deweys from many of my MARC records, so where this is so, I'd rather
> store them where they're supposed to go in Koha in case we need that
> data later.
>
> So more to the point, how do we ignore this data in the meantime, and
> use the barcode field everywhere in Koha as a local call number
> field?
>
> I'd really appreciate some details as to how to do this, as pertains
> to both the opac and the intranet. Or alternatively, I'd also
> appreciate feedback on how I'm totally off-base regarding normal
> library practices <g>, along with suggestions on how to accomplish
> what I'm trying to do.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Hans
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Stephen Hedges
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