[Koha] MARC 001 Field

[Nicole Engard]

I added this info to the manual - please correct me if I summarized it wrong.

http://koha.org/documentation/faq/which-field-in-koha-marc21-is-the-identifier-field/view

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Nicole C. Engard
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On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 5:54 AM, Zeno Tajoli <tajoli at cilea.it> wrote:
> Dear Ondrej,
>
> At 10.27 25/05/2009, Ondrej Mlecka wrote:
>>In the MARC 21 code there is the 001 field, which is the unequivocal
>>idetifier of each record. However, I can't find any support for this
>>field in Koha (for ex. a script which fills this field authomatically).
>>
>>Could anyone tell me how does this field function in Koha? It seems
>>that Koha uses rather some of the 999 subfields for the unequivoque
>>identifiing. Is therefore sme way how to map the Koha field in 001
>>MARC field? Or, in Koha is it prefered not to use this field?...
>
> yes, Koha in MARC21 setup uses the  999 to register the  unequivocal
> identifier of each BIBLIOGRAPHIC record.
>
> Attention that Koha uses two unequivocal identifier of each
> bibliographic record.
> In 999$c you see the Koha biblionumber  [used in the MySQL table 'biblio']
> In 999$d Koha biblioitemnumber  [used in the MySQL table 'biblioitems']
>
> In fact now Koha doesn't use the 001 field.
>
> And field 001 is a special field, you can't map the Koha field to 001
> MARC21 field. I have try to do it and it does not work.
> And can't find any script for this field because there isn't.
>
> But the system doesn't use the value inserted into 001 MARC21 field.
> So in fact you can insert everything.
>
> Cheers
> Zeno Tajoli
>
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