Additionally, if you have bibliographic records without any items (electronic resources) you will need an itemtype at the bib level (942c) to allow for patrons to search for that type of resource.
-joy On Wed, Apr 13, 2016 at 6:58 AM, Owen Leonard <oleon...@myacpl.org> wrote: > > What is the necessity of calling "Item type" (942c) at Record level > > instead of calling it as "record type". > > Circulation rules are defined for ITEMS which are associated with a > RECORD. > > ByWater Solutions posted something about this recently. The short > answer is that without a biblio-level item type (942c), any limit you > configure on the number of holds per item type will not work > correctly. > > http://bywatersolutions.com/2016/03/22/biblio-level-item-types-koha/ > > "Holds are not so simple — in particular, with biblio level holds, > items aren’t associated with the hold record until the hold is filled. > This means, for the purposes of determining how many of a given item > type that a patron can check out, Koha must check the biblio level > item type… and if those are not set, or aren’t set consistently across > the collection, you may see errors in the number of items that a > patron can put on hold." > > -- Owen > > -- > Web Developer > Athens County Public Libraries > http://www.myacpl.org > _______________________________________________ > Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org > Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz > https://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha > -- Joy Nelson Director of Migrations ByWater Solutions <http://bywatersolutions.com> Support and Consulting for Open Source Software Office: Fort Worth, TX Phone/Fax (888)900-8944 What is Koha? <http://bywatersolutions.com/what-is-koha/> _______________________________________________ Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz https://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha
