[Koha] Re: Meaning of the following please!

[Rachel Hamilton-Williams]

Hi Jackson,

I'd really recommend you join the Koha mailing list here

http://www.koha.org/community/mailing-lists.html

And ask these questions there.

There are librarians on the mailing list who will be very familiar with 
the MARC system, and what they all mean (I'm not a librarian or a 
cataloguer).

I've forwarded this to the list and hope that someone there may be able 
to help

Cheers
Rachel

Jackson Ray wrote:
> Dear Sir or Madam:
>  
> We are in the process of using Koha in our library here at the Solomon 
> Islands College of Higher Education (SICHE). However, as the person who 
> is going to do the cataloging, I find it hard to understand the 
> following terms found in field 0 of Koha. I'd like if you can explain 
> them and their purpose. Am I to fill them up or do they fill up 
> automatically?
>  
> They are:
> 000 - Leader
> 003 - Control number identifier
> 005 - Date and time of latest transaction
> 008 - Fixed length date elements - General information
>  
> We are trying to customize koha to our usage and need. I wonder if we 
> can obtain a manual or explanation of the terms used in koha so that we 
> can fully utilize this gift to us.
>  
> By the way, the above mentioned fields are always highlighted when we 
> try to enter data about a book, thus, we think they are mandatory. We 
> therefore want to know what they actually mean.
>  
> Tanggio tumas! and hope to hear from you guys soon.
>  
> Yours truly,
>  
>  
>  
> Jackson Ray
> 
> 
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