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.
On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 9:36 AM, <fr...@library.iisc.ernet.in> wrote: > On Tue, 21 Aug 2012, Paul wrote: > >> At 02:29 PM 8/21/2012 +0530, fr...@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 > > > 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 > >> >> >> > > -- > This message has been scanned for viruses and > dangerous content by MailScanner, and is > believed to be clean. > > _______________________________________________ > Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org > Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz > http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha -- Thanks, Savitra Sirohi Nucsoft OSS Labs Professional Support for Open Source Software Ph: +91 89718 06111 Web: http://www.osslabs.biz _______________________________________________ Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha
