[Koha] Koha for beginners

[Christopher Davis]

Mehvish,

Hello and welcome to the Koha Community :-) MARC records are computer
files which represent an item bibliographically (a citation of the
title, author(s), illustrator(s), publisher, subjects/topics, a
summary, etc.) at a title-level (not a record of each individual copy
of a tile). When MARC records are displayed in human-readable format,
one can find at the beginning of each line the identifier (also know
as a MARC tag) of each data field (for example, 040, 100, 245, 300,
etc.), and the letters or numbers preceded by a dollar sign ($a, $c,
$2, etc.) are sub-fields within those data fields. Found between
fields and sub-fields are indicators which instruct the computer
system how to treat the information found within the MARC record. An
example MARC field with sub-fields is 245$a[title] : $b[remainder of
title] / $c[name of author].

Check out loc.gov/marc for a more complete explanation.

All the best,

Christopher Davis, MLS
Systems & E-Services Librarian
Uintah County Library
cgdavis at uintah.utah.gov
(435) 789-0091 ext.261
uintahlibrary.org
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On Mon, Aug 15, 2016 at 11:28 AM, vikram zadgaonkar
<vikramczadgaonkar at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> You can refer manual. Help is also given along with tags in marc framework.
>
> On 15-Aug-2016 10:56 PM, "Mehvish Farah" <mehvishfarah at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>> I am new to Koha and have no library science experience.
>> I am trying to understand MARC but stuck at the terms where there are some
>> numbers with a dollar sign and then an alphabet. What is this basically?
>> I would be grateful if someone can help me with a book or link that helps
>> understand these terms or library/koha terms in general or in easy
>> comprehension.
>>
>> other thing that i want to know is if a book is bilingual (Spanish and
>> English or Arabic and English) , what should i write in Lnaguage code
>> clumn?
>>
>> Thanks
>> *Mehvish*
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