[Koha] Currency on Items

[Baljkas Family]

Wednesday, October 6, 2004     16:50 CDT

Hi, Andres,

Sorry for being flippant about the exchange rate data.

If you wish to record such data, it is certainly within the scope of the 020$c (ISBN, qualifying info) to do so. Someone can correct me, but I am fairly certain it would be okay to code as in the following example:
020 __ $a0201696967 $c$24.95 (CAD)
020 __ $a0201696967 $c$17.95 (USD; exchange rate)

I've seen cataloguing copy where just the $c was entered in, just to track price data. I was taught that cataloguers should always have the $a (just to reinforce what incarnation of the text we are talking about) so I always do that, but one of the examples at LC contradicts that teaching, so you should be allowed to adapt $c for your local usages.

Again, sorry for being flippant before about exchange rates. I am very sympathetic to your libraries' expenses in importing books and other materials. It is a major issue in academic libraries in Canada, too.

Cheers,
Steven F. Baljkas
library tech at large
Koha neophyte
Winnipeg, MB, Canada

 
> From: Andres Tarallo <tarallo at ort.edu.uy>
> Date: 2004/10/06 Wed PM 01:07:09 CDT
> To: koha at lists.katipo.co.nz
> Subject: Re: [Koha] Currency on Items
> 
> Steven:
> 
> In my current ILS I take care of the following Items: Price, Currency 
> (Pesos Uruguayos, Dollars, Euro) and exchange rate. This is important 
> for us, we keep track of our books in both local currency and the 
> foreing currency of the country they were purchased (we import many 
> books), remeber that I live in a developing country (with inflation) and 
> exchange rate matters here.
> 
> Andres
> 
> 
> Baljkas Family wrote:
> 
> >Wednesday, October 6, 2004     01:10 CDT
> >
> >Hi, Stephen et al.,
> >
> >Just 2 cents on the MARC matter.
> >
> >To be accurate, MARC21 makes *no* assumption about currency type/s. That is left for humans doing the coding to worry about. In Canada, we are so used to entering prices twice (first for CDN, second for USD) it is a non-issue. All Andres should do is make sure his library's cataloguing policy allows for the different entries.
> >
> >You will find that exempla for use of MARC21 on the LC website and elsewhere are mostly (i.e. almost all) using USD as the default. Sort of *cuius regio, eius religio*.
> >
> >And one other minor correction, Stephen: the catalogue record has multiple points at which you can track currency (I wouldn't see the point in noting the exchange rate, but maybe I am just not OCD enough), not the least of which is within the $c qualifier ("the price or a brief statement of availability and [my emphasis] **any parenthetical information qualifying the information**").
> >
> >Just FYI.