Jonathan, thanks for your suggestions. Sorry for my sloppy use of terminology.
You're right, I want to create a single MARC record for each item in my
collection, and each MARC record will have fields like 245 and 270.
I think that what I would like to do is something like this:
if ($ADP) {
my $madp = MARC::Field->new('270',' ', '4', a=>$ADP);
$marcrecord->append_fields($madp);
}
if ($CTPY)
my $mctpy = MARC::Field->new('270',' ', '4', b=>$CTPY);
$marcrecord->append_fields($mctpy);
}
I think that this would create two 270 fields, one with an 'a' subfield and one
with a 'b' subfield. Is this a problem in MARC records? Does this imply that
there are two separate, different addresses? Is this the way it's supposed to
be done? I thought that I had to create a single 270 field, with the various
subfields. Will this import okay into Koha?
270 is a repeating field. Would this still work okay on a non-repeating field?
Thanks, again, for your suggestions and your continuing help.
-Kevin
>>> Jonathan Gorman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 08/03/05 12:52PM >>>
On Wed, 3 Aug 2005, KEVIN ZEMBOWER wrote:
> I'm a newbie trying to wrap my computer science mind around MARC
Don't know what you're using for learning marc, but you might want to keep
http://www.loc.gov/marc. Just remember it's based off of flat file
processing and your computer science mind shouldn't have to horrible of a
time with the technical manipulation of records even if some of the
cataloging issues aren't clear.
>
> I'd like to create a 270 record (I think) from this information.
It looks like you're confusing records with fields. A record can contain
any number of fields, and fields will contain two indicators and certain
subfields. So you probably want at a record with at least the
address field (270), and title (245).
MARC::Record has some documentation on how to add fields to a marc record
after it's been created (see the add_fields()).
Jonathan T. Gorman
Visiting Research Information Specialist
University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana
216 Main Library - MC522
1408 West Gregory Drive
Urbana, IL 61801
Phone: (217) 244-7839
