[Koha] Catalog search table and breeder table mis-match?

Stephen Hedges shedges at skemotah.com
Thu Oct 21 00:44:09 NZDT 2004


Rich, this may be a stupid question, but did you choose MARC21 as your
MARC flavor?  And are your MARC records MARC21?

Stephen

Rich Baldwin said:
>
> Stephen,
>
> Sure.  How ?  I just installed Koha and setup apache.  SO....  I'm
> using whatever the default settings are for the Marc to Koha mappings.
> I can send you a sample marc record if that would be helpful.
>
> Tx, Rich
>
> Stephen Hedges wrote:
>
>   Rich, could you share your MARC-to-Koha mapping with us?  Sounds like
> the
> problem may be there.
>
> Stephen
>
> Rich Baldwin said:
>
>
>     Running version 2.0.1 on Mandrake 10.1 w/ Apache2.
>
> Our librarian has assembled serveral thoasand Marc record files which
> import into the breeder table fine.  I can add a biblio by using the
> Acquistions Marc Biblio Management; I add a title.  All of the
> fields and subfields are correct (all nine).  I get  to the add
> biblo page; this seems to work fine too.   However, when doing a
> Catalog search I can't find any of my titles!   If I enter the the
> copyright date in the title field for a particular book, I get the
> reference information, but the fields have all shifted  from the
> correct order as when adding the biblio.  What has happened?   I
> suspect there are some subfields which need to be turned off or on, but
> it is unclear (from an administrators perspective) exactly which Marc
> subfields need to be turned on and which need to be turned off.  I
> thought that the purpose of having a standard was to avoid this type of
> tuning.  Would greatly appreciate your advice.
>
> Thanks, Rich
>

-- 
Stephen Hedges
Skemotah Solutions, USA
www.skemotah.com  --  shedges at skemotah.com



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