[Koha] Completeness of records for importing

[franc at library.iisc.ernet.in]

On Wed, 22 Aug 2012, Savitra Sirohi wrote:

> 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.

Thank you, Sirohi, for the inputs. Will explore your suggestion.

Regards, Francis



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> 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
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>>
>> 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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