[Koha] Question about changing the material type in a Koha record

[Lauren Denny]

You're welcome!

On Wed, Nov 8, 2023 at 10:41 AM Ratliff, Ramona <rjratliff at york.edu> wrote:

> Lauren,
>
> Thank-you so very much for this information. I will use your resources and
> I'm sure I will learn a lot about how to work with Koha.
>
> *Ramona Ratliff *
>
> Information Specialist
>
> *York University*
>
> Office: (402) 363-5708 | rjratliff at york.edu <email at york.edu> | *york.edu
> <http://www.york.edu/>*
>
>
> On Tue, Nov 7, 2023 at 6:41 PM Lauren Denny <lauren_denny at sil.org> wrote:
>
>> Hi Ramona,
>>
>> It depends on what you mean by 'material type'.  The leader and
>> 006/007/008 control the small material type icon.  The 942$c controls the
>> item type icon that displays on search results.  The 952$y displays the
>> icon in the item record.  If you want to follow RDA and fill in the 33x
>> fields, go to the framework that you want to edit and add these fields.
>>
>> I spoke on how I used the koha Frameworks to populate information related
>> to item types in two sessions at the KohaUS conference this year.  One on
>> what I did and the second on how to do it for yourself.
>> Koha and Item Type Identification and Clean Up
>> <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZqoIj6H2KUQ>
>> Using Koha & MarcEdit to Help Standardize Your Records
>> <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QIm9BXZztBA>
>>
>> Lauren
>>
>> On Tue, Nov 7, 2023 at 3:45 PM Ratliff, Ramona <rjratliff at york.edu>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> I haven't been cataloging very long, and so I am still learning. Can
>>> someone please tell me how to change the material type in a Koha record?
>>> In
>>> our basic records, I cannot access the 336, 337 and 338 tags.
>>> Can you still change the material type without those tags ?
>>>
>>> *Ramona Ratliff *
>>>
>>> Information Specialist
>>>
>>> *York University*
>>>
>>> Office: (402) 363-5708 | rjratliff at york.edu <email at york.edu> | *york.edu
>>> <http://www.york.edu/>*
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