[Koha] marc mapping questions.

[Tim McMahon - West Liberty Public Library]

I was mapping to 245b, but the menu for Koha links only lists 
bibliosubtitle.title.  I'm using version 2.2.0.  If I have things 
figured right, I should be putting our formats into item types.  Some of 
our formats are fairly long, so I'll need to convert them to something 
that will fit into Koha items.  I have the text conversion down, but now 
I'm having problems figuring out how to update the records with a perl 
script.

Thanks

Stephen Hedges wrote:

>Subtitle is easy -- map MARC tag 245b (MARC21) to bibliosubtitle.subtitle.
>
>Format is tougher.  There's no single MARC tag that contains format
>information.  Nor is there any good column in the biblioitems table for
>storing such information.  Probably your best solution is careful
>selection of your item types.  Choose itemtype codes that are meaningful
>-- like "CD" or "DVD" or "Cass."
>
>  
>
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Tim McMahon
Technical Services
West Liberty Public Library
http://www.wlpl.org