[Koha] Koha Digest, Vol 58, Issue 18

[Gloria Hicks]

Will do. thanks

Gloria Hicks
Roger G. Barry Resource Office for Cryospheric Studies
National Snow & Ice Data Center
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>    1. Re: Seeking opinions on the OPAC MARC views (Jesse)
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>    3. Re: Seeking opinions on the OPAC MARC views (M. Brooke Helman)
>    4. Re: Trouble with public note display in OPAC (Owen Leonard)
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> Date: Fri, 6 Aug 2010 10:23:08 -0600
> From: Jesse <pianohacker at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Koha] Seeking opinions on the OPAC MARC views
> To: Owen Leonard <oleonard at myacpl.org>
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> 2010/8/6 Owen Leonard <oleonard at myacpl.org>
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>> On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 10:03 AM, Kurt Bodling <kbodling at mountvernon.org>
>> wrote:
>>     
>>> As a librarian, I like being able to check the MARC coding of a record
>>> (mine or that in other libraries).
>>>       
>> Is the "raw" MARC view the one you prefer for this? As opposed to this one?
>>
>>
>> http://catalog.bywatersolutions.com/cgi-bin/koha/opac-MARCdetail.pl?biblionumber=363
>>
>>     
>>> 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.
>>>       
>> The above view (opac-MARCdetail.pl) respects the visibility settings
>> you can configure in your MARC framework. So if you edit a tag's
>> subfield structure and set the "hidden" value so that it does not
>> display in the OPAC, it won't. However, these rules are not respected
>> by the "raw" modal MARC view.
>>
>>     
>>> 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.
>>>       
>> If you're trying to borrow from a Koha library, why not use the "Save
>> record" option?
>>
>>  -- Owen
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> More steps. (Save record, click save, wait for the download, find wherever
> in God's name Firefox put the file, go to the koha import tool, import it,
> click import, import the staged import, wait for zebra to reindex, click on
> the record, click edit). As far as I know, this is... tedious. I could be
> wrong, but I think this method involves a fair number of clicks.
>
> The cataloger at my library uses raw MARC views a lot because of the textual
> MARC editor we use. Obviously, this won't apply to every library (though I'm
> trying to get this out into the world), but raw MARC views make a lot of
> copy cataloging easier.
>
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