[Koha] A very basic librarian question

[Nicole Engard]

I recommend you using a bit of the title or author in your call
numbering scheme.  So to use your Veggie Tales example maybe vegg1,
vegg2, etc.  That way they sit together.  It may also be easier if you
user years or some sort of number that's on the DVD itself as the
second number.

For cataloging, call numbers go in the 090 field.  As for Koha I'm
pretty sure it goes in the 949 subfield a spot.

I know that was a pretty brief answer - but does it help?

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Nicole C. Engard
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On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 12:34 PM, George Adams <g_adams27 at hotmail.com> wrote:
> As I try to setup our church library, it's been helpful for me to have
>  a programming background as I work with Koha.  Unfortunately, I don't
>  have a librarian background, which is causing me to have to learn a lot
>  of things that are probably obvious to anyone who's done this kind of
>  thing before.  Here's one such problem.
>
>  I had thought I would simply enter all my DVDs into Koha, generate
>  labels that contain the title of the DVD and the barcode #, and stick
>  those labels on the DVD cases.  Then items would be shelved in numeric
>  order by barcode #.
>
>  What finally occurred to me is that if we have several, say,
>  VeggieTales videos as barcodes 11,12,13,14, then buy a new one later,
>  the new DVD will have a barcode something like 104, and be shelved
>  nowhere near the other ones.  So obviously I need a different way to
>  sort my items on the shelf that isn't based on the barcode.
>
>  I'm guessing this is a "call number", right?  (told you this was a
>  really basic question!)  So, my questions are:
>
>
>  * How should I go about developing a system for creating a call number?
>   Is there a "best practices" way of doing this?  (The vast majority of
>   these videos are from fairly small publishers, or are even created
>   in-house, so they won't have any official Dewey or LC numbers or
>   anything.  So, I'm going to have to create a system from scratch, and
>   I'd like to figure out the best way to do it.
>
>
>  * Where do I store this information in Koha?  I see fields that look
>   like possibilities in 942h,i,k,m , but there are a lot of 0xx fields
>   that look like possibilities as well.  I'm not sure which is the best
>   field to use...
>
>   (or maybe that information is part of the "Item", not the "Biblio"?
>   In which case I should maybe put it into "o - Koha full card
>   number" on the "Add Item" screen that follows the "Add MARC Record"
>   page?)
>
>
>  Thanks for some basic help. :-)
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