[Koha] Type vs. Item Type

[David Cook]

Hi Steve:

I assume that you're using the XSLT system preferences for search results?

The "Type" field is determined by analysing the MARC record's "Leader" tag
(i.e. it comes directly from the MARCXML - not a DB field). 

A type of "Book" comes up if position 6 of your Leader is "a" (Language
material) or "t" (Manuscript language material), and if position 7 of your
Leader is "c" (Collection), "d" (Subunit), or "m" (Monograph).

If "Book" is coming up for records with item types of "DVD" and "Tape", it's
because those records have been catalogued as books. 

This link might elucidate (or confuse) things more:
http://www.loc.gov/marc/formatintegration.html

In order to avoid a situation where you might have misleading information in
your search results...you have several options:

1) Turn off the "DisplayOPACiconsXSLT" system preference. This will remove
the "Type", "Format", etc. information from the OPAC search results
(although it will still display in the intranet, if you've enabled XSLT
there).
2) Fix the Leader in your catalogue records so that they are properly coded
3) Turn off XSLT for search results

Hope that helps!

David Cook
Systems Librarian
Prosentient Systems P/L
ABN 31 078 409 168
72/330 Wattle St, 
Ultimo NSW 2007
tel: 02 92120899
fax: 02 92120885
dcook at prosentient.com.au

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Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2013 11:13:50 -0400
From: Steven Nickerson <snicker1 at maine.rr.com>
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Subject: [Koha] Type vs. Item Type
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Hi everyone,
Can someone explain to me where the "Type" field in the search results comes
from in the DB?  Currently everything shows up as type "Book" even though in
the details the Item Type shows correctly (i.e. DVD, Tape, etc). Thank you
in advance!

Steve