[Koha] Marc Authority Frameworks and Record Displays

Ramon Andinach custard at westnet.com.au
Mon Mar 31 22:22:01 NZDT 2008


Ah, I see. Thank you.

I didn't mention that this is Koha 3, so the hidden field is "hidden"  
behind the "display more constraints" link.

-ramon

On 31/03/2008, at 12:59 AM, Ryan Higgins wrote:
>
> Hi Ramon
>
> Visibility in the OPAC, staff interface and editor is controlled by  
> the
> MARC Subfield Structure.   You'll find a link in System Administration
> to MARC Bibliographic Frameworks that will get you there.  Find tag  
> 080
> and Edit Subfields.  You'll find a coded 'hidden' value, which is a  
> bit abstruse
> at first glance, but if you click the [?] help link at the top right  
> of the screen,
> you'll find an explanation.  If you set hidden to zero, the 080  
> subfields you've
> edited will appear in your MARC editor and in your MARC displays.
>
> HTH
>
> Ryan
>
>
>
> On Sun, Mar 30, 2008 at 7:21 AM, Ramon Andinach <custard at westnet.com.au 
> > wrote:
> Thanks, that makes sense and is what I'm seeing.
>
> The follow up question is - if I want to add information for a record
> that is in the framework and is currently empty (and hence doesn't
> show up), how do I do that?
>
> The long version is:
> While going through the preferences I'd noticed that Koha was capable
> of dealing with a number of classification schemes (other than Dewey
> which I'm most familiar with - but am not entirely happy with), one of
> these the UDC looks like it might fit better, but although the
> appropriate MARC Code (080) is in the Framework, and Koha has it
> listed as a classification scheme I'm using I can't see it in the MARC
> record point anywhere else in the cataloguing process. I'd like to
> know how to make sure that it turns up so that I can populate the  
> field.
>
> Thanks again,
>
> ramon.
>
>
> On 26/03/2008, at 9:05 PM, David Schuster wrote:
> >
> > Generally if there isn't something in a tag it won't display.  Are
> > you seeing
> > something different than that?
> >
> > David
> >
> > custard wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi there,
> >>
> >> Probably a fairly basic question here, but from a non-librarian.
> >>
> >> I'm noticing that some of the MARC fields that are in a given
> >> framework are not showing when looking at the record of an item.
> >>
> >> Is this expected?
> >> What controls which fields do show?
> >>
> >> -ramon
>



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