[Koha] Completeness of records for importing

[Savitra Sirohi]

Francis, just want to share with you what we do - which is to ignore 008.

We just change zebra configuration to use 260c instead of 008 where required.


On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 9:36 AM,  <franc at library.iisc.ernet.in> wrote:
> On Tue, 21 Aug 2012, Paul wrote:
>
>> At 02:29 PM 8/21/2012 +0530, franc at library.iisc.ernet.in wrote:
>> [snip]
>>>
>>> Field 008 has been generated by the MarcEdit tool. Should it be
>>> substituted with 260$c using the same tool? I did look up the LoC site to
>>> have a better understanding of the field 008. It says character position
>>> 07-10 as Date1. Could you please let me know as to what does 'Date1' refer
>>> to?
>>
>>
>> "Date 1/beginning date of publication" -- pls see
>> <http://www.loc.gov/marc/umb/um07to10.html#part10> -- for books (rather than
>> serials, which can also have an "ending date of publication") this date is
>> most often the same as 260$c (for a full discussion of 260$c and 260$g, see
>> <http://www.loc.gov/marc/bibliographic/bd260.html>.)
>>
>> Paul
>
>
> Thank you, Paul, for the clarification and also for the pointers. Its still
> not clear to me as to how should the value of 260$c be assigned to the
> positions 7-10 of field 008?
>
> Thanks and regards, Francis
>
>>
>>
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