[Koha] 008 form of material will only ever say Books

[Elaine Bradtke]

Thank you Joy!
It was the leader position 6 that was doing it, that was set to Language
material. That explains the problem! I didn't think to check there.
Phew.

On Tue, Jun 6, 2017 at 8:25 PM, Joy Nelson <joy at bywatersolutions.com> wrote:

> Elaine-
> Have you tried editing your leader first.  The leader on this record is
> set to monographic.  If you change the leader, you should be able to change
> the 008 tag and have it save correctly.
>
> leader: fixed length control field nam a22 7a 4500
>
> joy
>
> On Tue, Jun 6, 2017 at 2:12 PM, Elaine Bradtke <eb at efdss.org> wrote:
>
>> Please tak a look at biblio 75117  - http://catalogue.efdss.org/
>> It's a sound recording, but it insists that it is a book. The 007 is set
>> for sound recording, but the material type in the 008 always says Books.
>> I
>> have tried at least a dozen times (and two different browsers) and I can
>> not change it to say sound recording.  Every time I edit the 008 it
>> changes
>> back to book.  If I edit other parts of the 008, those changes stick, but
>> not the type of material.  I downloaded the record, edited it off line and
>> uploaded it again, and the 008 *still *reverted to book.
>>
>> I know the Fixed field pop up editors have compatibility problems with
>> adblock and such, so I've used Firefox without add-ons or extensions, and
>> also a plain version of Chrome. We're currently running 16.11.08
>>
>> I am checking with the cataloguers to see if they have seen this
>> elsewhere,
>> or if it's just one rogue record. They're about to start in on a large
>> collection of recordings so I hope to solve this soon.
>>
>> Any ideas?  Anyone else seen this sort of thing?
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> --
>> Elaine Bradtke
>> Data Wrangler
>> VWML
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Elaine Bradtke
Data Wrangler
VWML
English Folk Dance and Song Society | http://www.efdss.org
Cecil Sharp House, 2 Regent's Park Road, London NW1 7AY
Tel    +44 (0) 20 7485 2206 (This number is for the English Folk Dance and
Song Society in London, England. If you wish to phone me personally, send
an e-mail first. I work off site)
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"Writing about music is like dancing about architecture"
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