[Koha] Seeking opinions on the OPAC MARC views

[Kurt Bodling]

As a librarian, I like being able to check the MARC coding of a record
(mine or that in other libraries).  

But, also as a librarian, I would like to make this go away so that
fields I code as "hidden" are completely hidden, even from the prying
eyes of other librarians.  (So, for example, I could put rare book
acquisition information in the MARC record, but others couldn't see that
donor or purchase information.)

Either way, I don't believe that our patrons use that information at
all.

Too improve usability, it would be good if I could cut and paste from
that view. The expanded MARC view doesn't supply the tags necessary to,
um, 'borrow' other people's cataloging work.

Kurt
Mount Vernon



> -----Original Message-----
> From: koha-bounces at lists.katipo.co.nz [mailto:koha-
> bounces at lists.katipo.co.nz] On Behalf Of Owen Leonard
> Sent: Friday, August 06, 2010 9:36 AM
> To: koha at lists.katipo.co.nz
> Subject: [Koha] Seeking opinions on the OPAC MARC views
> 
> If you have your OPAC XSLT option turned on, a standard installation
> of Koha 3.x will have two options for viewing a title's MARC record
> from the detail page: "MARC View" and "Expanded MARC View." See this
> example on ByWater's demo:
> 
> http://catalog.bywatersolutions.com/cgi-bin/koha/opac-
> detail.pl?biblionumber=363
> 
> If you click the "MARC View" link it pops up a modal window with a
> plain text view of the MARC record.
> 
> Does your library use this view? From a public library perspective
> this view doesn't seem useful. I'm interested in finding out whether
> others find it useful and if there are ways we can improve the
> usability of the option for all.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
>   Owen
> 
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