Re: [Koha] [EXTERNAL] Remove Not For Loan / Available distinctions

Hi, Elaine-- We're in a similar situation--all our items are available for use in our Reading Room, and a select few are eligible for interlibrary loan or our staff might check them out. So I recently suppressed that "status" from displaying in the OPAC via: Home > Administration > Columns setti

Re: [Koha] [EXTERNAL] Re: Searching Authority Records by Authority Record Number

Hi! We're on 18.11, but if I just put an aut record number into the search box with "Default," "contains" selected, my Koha returns just the aut record with that aut record number. (It does the same thing if I use the LCCN from the 010 field.) Interestingly enough, it works also in the Authority

Re: [Koha] [EXTERNAL] Koha Newsletter January 2020: addendum

Thank you for posting this, Chad--I would have missed Marcel de Rooy's blog post otherwise, and I really enjoyed reading it! The Koha Community Newsletter is always interesting reading and I always look forward to it! Cheerio! h2 ~~ Ms. Heather Hernandez (she, her, hers) Technical Ser

Re: [Koha] Preserving circ history of deleted item

Hi, Ellen-- This might not work for you--we're a special library with very low circulation and don't pull any important reports on new items--but in similar circumstances, where we do have an item that's circulated a lot and been replaced with a better copy, I've simply edited the existing item re

Re: [Koha] 008 edits not sticking

Hi, Elaine-- We're on 16.11.05.000, but I could see if I can duplicate your problem--are you using the basic or the advanced bibliographic editor when trying to make these changes? Cheers, h2 ~~ Heather Hernandez Technical Services Librarian San Francisco Maritime National Historical

Re: [Koha] 008 edits not sticking

That's great, Elaine! Cheerio! h2 ~~ Heather Hernandez Technical Services Librarian San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park Research Center 2 Marina Blvd., Bldg. E, 3rd floor, San Francisco, CA 94123-1284 415-561-7032, heather_hernan...@nps.gov https://www.nps.gov/safr/learn/h

Re: [Koha] Koha circ & fine rules based on CCODE instead of item type

Hi, all-- I have missed having an item's location be a consideration in the loan table--in other systems that I've used, location was a factor in the system calculating whether or not an item could be circulated. In Koha, I think this would mean adding an item record's Shelving Location (MARC fie

Re: [Koha] MARC field and heading validation with Koha

Hi, Kumiko-- I'm not sure our workflow would be applicable since we're a very specialized museum library, but maybe you'll get some ideas? We lacked a lot of authority capabilities in our previous catalog software (Athena), so our headings were & are pretty messy. I'm in the middle of a project

Re: [Koha] [ByWater Partners] MARC field and heading validation with Koha

Hi, Joy! I haven't yet tried to set the LinkerOptions system preference to "broader_headings" because the manual (at https://koha-community.org/manual/17.05/html/02_administration.html?highlight=broader%20headings#linkeroptions) says: *Important* This feature is experimental and shouldn’t be use

Re: [Koha] [ByWater Partners] MARC field and heading validation with Koha

Thank you so much for sharing all of this, Jennifer! I think we're going to give the broader... syspref setting a try after the first of the year! Cheerio! h2 ~~ Heather Hernandez Technical Services Librarian San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park Research Center 2 Marina Blv

Re: [Koha] A friendly framework for patrons

Hi! > Does anybody know which MARC21 tag/subtag is indicated to record book's > author, special/secondary price, and pages number? There's lots of information on MARC21 at the Library of Congress' MARC Standards Office website: https://www.loc.gov/marc/ You may be especially interested in "MARC

Re: [Koha] A friendly framework for patrons

Hi-- I'm going to get very "cataloger" here...:) Please remember that each institution may apply these tags differently, too. Each of these tags is used slightly differently, for different purposes. The 037 field tends to apply to a particular distributor of a published item (like a commercially

Re: [Koha] cataloguing in koha according to RDA

Hi! Yes--you can use any cataloging rules that you like. If you are then using MARC21, RDA is most commonly indicated with "i" in the 000/Leader/position 18 ("Descriptive Cataloging Form" in Koha) and 040 subfield e value of "rda," e.g.: 040 _ _ $e rda Cheerio, h2 ~~ Heather Hernand

Re: [Koha] Anyone using OCLC Connexion?

Hi, Agnes-- We're using OCLC Connexion Client (and very occasionally the Connexion web interface), but I've never used OCLC CatExpress--I'd be happy to help you if I can with exporting from Connexion Client or Connexion web interface if I can. (The Connexion Client interface hasn't changed at all

Re: [Koha] cataloguing in koha according to RDA

Coolness, Barton! It's very gratifying when the data gets searched & retrieved! Cheerio, h2 ~~ Heather Hernandez Technical Services Librarian San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park Research Center 2 Marina Blvd., Bldg. E, 3rd floor, San Francisco, CA 94123-1284 415-561-7032,

Re: [Koha] [EXTERNAL] [ByWater Partners] Connexion client alternatives

Hi, Chad-- I'm just mucking along with Connexion Client. When OCLC really cuts it off, then I think I'll move to using Koha's advanced bib editor for original cataloging, & probably importing/exporting via the Connexion web interface (I'm not a fan of their newer product). My future workflow may

Re: [Koha] [EXTERNAL] fighting feature creep and cleaning up Koha

Hi-- Sorry to reply with questions, but before I try to log in to bugzilla to comment, I'd like to be sure I'm understanding things correctly. In this bug: https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=20528 I'm not completely understanding the first paragraph: The normal view offer

Re: [Koha] [EXTERNAL] Re: Connexion client alternatives

Hi, all-- Pamela--I'm glad I'm not alone in my peculiar workflow! ::high-five!:: And, Fred, Koha's breaking of lines in odd places is exactly why I just copy the call number from the 050/090 field into the into the 952 $o on the OCLC Connexion Client record, remove the $b & full-stop & correct t

Re: [Koha] [ByWater Partners] [EXTERNAL] Re: Connexion client alternatives

Hi-- Yes, Barton, that bug report about map call numbers is from our problems with...map call number sorting! I don't know of anything that needs to be "fixed"--Koha just doesn't put line breaks in call numbers where we'd like it to, but that doesn't mean anything's "broken." We have no money fo

Re: [Koha] [EXTERNAL] Importing MARC records with items

Hi, Sean-- I had one other thought that might be helpful--your 952 $p fields don't seem to contain unique barcode numbers, and if your UniqueItemFields system preference is set to require that the barcode field be unique, that might be also causing you problem(s) with your importing, item creatio

Re: [Koha] [EXTERNAL] Re: [Koha-US Mailing List] KohaCon 2018: Adventures of the Avenging Chicken

This made my day, Fred--so much fun and so delightful to see so many fun photos of people in the wonderful Koha community! Thank you so much for them! Best, h2 ~~ Heather Hernandez Technical Services Librarian San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park Research Center 2 Marina Bl

Re: [Koha] [EXTERNAL] Filtering inventory results by cn_sort vs. callnumber

Hi, Nick-- I read through Bug 21629 and if I'm reading it correctly, it says that call numbers are sorted correctly using cn_sort, but Bug 17269 describes how call numbers are not sorted correctly using cn_sort, specifically the ones with colons in them in the G Library of Congress classification

Re: [Koha] [EXTERNAL] Filtering inventory results by cn_sort vs. callnumber

Thank you, Eric! Cheerio, h2 ~~ Heather Hernandez Technical Services Librarian San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park Research Center 2 Marina Blvd., Bldg. E, 3rd floor, San Francisco, CA 94123-1284 415-561-7032, heather_hernan...@nps.gov Library catalog: http://keys.bywaters

Re: [Koha] [EXTERNAL] [Koha-US Mailing List] Chat/Poetry for a Friday (Eastern US Time)

Bravo, Fred!! I "printed" it out and taped it to The Thing That Used to be a Good Printer/Copier/Scanner Yet Still Functions Just Enough That We Can't Get A Replacement. Thank you for the laughs! h2 ~~ Heather Hernandez Technical Services Librarian San Francisco Maritime National Hist

Re: [Koha] [EXTERNAL] Filtering inventory results by cn_sort vs. callnumber

Hi! Thank you, Myka, for that report to see if cn_sort does sort LC call numbers with colons in the cutters correctly! Unfortunately, it doesn't. The following not come across clearly, but here are some results from running that report in our catalog on the G class schedule--if anyone would like

Re: [Koha] [EXTERNAL] Serial numbering pattern for MMM dd, YYYY possible?

Hi, Indranil-- We haven't had much luck with weekly pattern projection such as this--all our weekly serials have number-based volume and/or number "numbering," so we just project that numbering and then we manually add the date upon check-in. You might be able to use week numbering (based on ther

Re: [Koha] [EXTERNAL] Serial numbering pattern for MMM dd, YYYY possible?

Hi, Indranil-- Great video! And nice that we had the same idea! One thing that you probably already know about, that we've found very handy, is using the "Non-public note" field in the subscription records for information for the staff to use at check-in, since the information in that field disp

Re: [Koha] [EXTERNAL] Extracting list of biblios with . in the subject

Hi, Tami-- Your example is a properly formed Library of Congress topical heading in a 650 field, which is supposed to end with a mark of punctuation or a closing parenthesis--and the ending mark of punctuation is usually a period/full stop. Are you trying to identify records with such properly fo

Re: [Koha] Extracting list of biblios with . in the subject

Hi, Tami-- Ah--ours displays exactly the same way--we don't have records with the subject "Lampreys," but we do have whales: - Topics - Whales - Whales.

Re: [Koha] [EXTERNAL] Doubts cataloguing serial items

Hi, Rubeno-- Your questions are not silly at all--I'm sure there are always people with the same questions who haven't asked them yet, and serials cataloging is never simple! Serials change periodicity, size, publisher, title, etc., all the time, and only when a serial is very rare & unique do we

Re: [Koha] [EXTERNAL] [ByWater Partners] How do you do "Library of Things"?

Hi, Chad-- Although we don't circulate these items, we do have some catalog records that might be useful to how games and objects are cataloged--when we do loan out items with loose materials that should be counted for completeness on check in, we use the $3 field in the item record to mention it

[Koha] Order of display of 246 $i and $a fields

Hi! My users have noticed something that's bothered me, but I held off clutching my pearls about it until one of my users complained to me!:) I'm wondering if this might be worth my learning to try to file a bug? The MARC21 Bibliographic Format for subfield i in the 246 field specifies putting a

Re: [Koha] [EXTERNAL] batching imported records viaz39.50

Hi, Luisa-- I can give you some information on your second question: > Secondly, how do I use OCLC in Z39.50 - can someone help me with > the procedures to do this please. You need to pay for a full cataloging subscription to OCLC to use it even via Z39.50, and you can obtain a quote for that by

Re: [Koha] [EXTERNAL] Re: Order of display of 246 $i and $a fields

Hi! Thank you for your encouragement and offer to help, Katrin--I'm going to try to file a bug, then! I will definitely read through the page at the link that you forwarded--that looks very helpful! This will be my first attempt to actually file a bug--I'll put on my pearls!:) More soon! Cheer

Re: [Koha] [EXTERNAL] Awards location?

Hi, Jesse-- I would hesitate to put a 650 in a record for the award that an item won, since that item wouldn't be *about* the award--if I wanted a 6XX field for an award, I'd be tempted to use a 655 instead. Our collection is very different, being a special/museum library, but we're having good l

Re: [Koha] [EXTERNAL] Re: Order of display of 246 $i and $a fields

Hi! I filed a bug for this! My shiny, new, cute, adorable, darling bug is here: https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=23119 I read through the very helpful Bug Reporting Guidelines, and lots of other messages with helpful info that I had saved for that magic day when I filed

Re: [Koha] [EXTERNAL] Re: Order of display of 246 $i and $a fields

Hi! The Koha community always makes me smile!! And it's lovely to think that I might be helping improve things, even through one small thing. >...it's a slippery slope to your first code submission next 😉. ::hee!:: I may have been working on trying to convince my employer to let me learn how t

Re: [Koha] [EXTERNAL] Uploading local cover images

Hi, Cab-- We've found that our installation of Koha needs the image file to have dimensions of pixels or less on each side. In case it's helpful, here's some info on our workflow: We do preservation scanning since we're a museum collection; in short, we usually scan at 300dpi, full color, .t

Re: [Koha] [EXTERNAL] Re: Order of display of 246 $i and $a fields

> Was there any pearl clutching necessary during this adventure? Well, Doug, I have to admit, when I first saw the order of the added title entry displays there was a clutching of pearls--I'm not ashamed to admit that! Not a firm clutching, since all the information *is *displayed, but a clutchi

Re: [Koha] [EXTERNAL] Re: [Koha-devel] Extracting Frequency of a Serial From metadata

Hi! > Even this query gives certain ambiguous values like 'SM', 'BM', 'Q', etc. > What do these values mean? My guess is that the one & two letter values are abbreviations, e.g.: SM = Semimonthly BM = Bimonthly Q = Quarterly 0 = Irregular... Current cataloging under RDA (Resource Description and

[Koha] Education: Training resources wiki help

Hi, all-- I've created a page on the wiki for a sample book record (a novel in a series), and my formatting is wonky--the left hand navigation is way down the page in Firefox, Chrome, and Opera, and I can't figure out how to get it back up alongside the page content--could someone help me to fix t

Re: [Koha] Education: Training resources wiki help

Hi, all-- Just thought I'd report back that the left navigation pane came back up to where it should be when I fixed my improperly formatted breadcrumb links--they way I had them to throw off the page formatting. Thank you for the very helpful off-list suggestions! I've learned a lot, and will b

Re: [Koha] RDA

Hi, Jenice-- I don't know how many there are, but we've been using RDA for our new records for a while now in Koha, for our library and archival materials. I have a list with some different types of materials, including archival finding aids, cataloging according to RDA if you'd like to take a lo

Re: [Koha] Publication date fields in Koha

Hi, Steve-- I can chime in a bit about the 260 and 264 fields. The 264 field is new, and came along with RDA--records that were cataloged according to previous rules (AACR2, etc.) would have a 260 field. So, yes, ideally, a bib record has either a 260 or a 264 field, but not both. I don't think

Re: [Koha] ًQuestions about 952 Field

Hi, Jesse-- I catalog on OCLC's Connexion Client, and use the "Text String" tool to set up my most commonly used fields in the 952--it's really handy, and generates my most commonly used 952 with a keystroke. I've found that it's faster to create the item records on OCLC with 952 fields & import

Re: [Koha] ًQuestions about 952 Field

er you have them listed? > > I am glad I asked this question now. Whew! > > Again, thanks a lot. > Very helpful indeed. > > Jesse > > On Fri, May 29, 2015 at 3:48 PM, Hernandez, Heather < > heather_hernan...@nps.gov> wrote: > >> Hi, Jesse-- >> >>

Re: [Koha] Problem uploading patrons

Hi, Elaine-- Could she make a video of what she's doing using some tool like Jing, that records what she's doing on her computer, to send to you? That way she could record exactly what she's doing and then send the video to you, which might help you figure out if it's operator error or not. Chee

Re: [Koha] Sorting of LISTS

Hi-- We noticed this last fall--I think there's a bug for it already: http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=13722 Cheerio! --heather ~~ Heather Hernandez Technical Services Librarian San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park Research Center 415-561-7032, heath

Re: [Koha] [Koha-devel] RFC: Reverting MARC batches with deleted records

Hi, Kyle-- I couldn't agree more with wanting the records to stay deleted in that scenario--I want all my deleted records to stay permanently, perpetually, and completely deleted. No zombie records!!!:) --h2 ~~ Heather Hernandez Technical Services Librarian San Francisco Maritime Nat

[Koha] Fwd: Converting MARC 21 from AACR2 to RDA

Forgot to also send this to the list! --h2 -- Forwarded message -- From: Hernandez, Heather Date: Mon, Jul 6, 2015 at 10:34 AM Subject: Re: [Koha] Converting MARC 21 from AACR2 to RDA To: Elaine Bradtke Hi, Elaine-- Cataloging rules change, and IMNSHO, "old" do

Re: [Koha] Fwd: Converting MARC 21 from AACR2 to RDA

Hi! We have a similar collection to Paul's naval and marine archive, I think--we have over 34,000 titles in our Koha catalog and we are not a lending library (although some materials do circulate to staff). I was surprised to read your message, Paul, about your finding a search speed penalty with

Re: [Koha] Use koha as a reference database

Hi, Colleen-- I'm sorry that you've found cataloging non-physical items in MARC frustrating--I catalog a lot of non-physical resources in MARC (and have for a long time, both with AACR2R & RDA), so please let me know if I could answer any questions you might have. Cheerio! h2 ~~ Heath

Re: [Koha] Use koha as a reference database

I look forward to it, Colleen--I'm always happy to chat about cataloging! If I come up with record examples in our catalog that I think others might find useful, I'll be sure to send those to the Koha list as well, and perhaps to Nicole to include in the manual. Cheerio! h2 ~~ Heather

Re: [Koha] Use koha as a reference database

Hi-- How are you exporting into Zotero, Colleen? I went to the record you mentioned in your email: http://keys.bywatersolutions.com/cgi-bin/koha/opac-detail.pl?biblionumber=2 And when I saved it to my Zotero, I clicked that little Zotero page icon in my Firefox toolbar & chose the option, "Save

Re: [Koha] Use koha as a reference database

Hi-- Oh--I understand now! Thank you for clarifying, Colleen. I wish I could help or offer suggestions on Koha's record save functions in those formats, but neither we nor the researchers really use them on Koha. When we or our users need a particular bibliographic citation format for export th

Re: [Koha] Checkbox «Flagged» on subfield visibil ity framework setup

I just LOVE the change from the numbers to the term "hidden" in the framework--it's so much clearer to me! Thank you to the coders who made that possible! A cataloger myself, I've never understood what the "flagged" option in Koha was supposed to mean--I've never been able to relate it to any opt

Re: [Koha] System generated field 001 control number

Hi, Pablo-- I'm not really sure what you're asking--we use the 001 for a unique bibliographic control number, which for us is the OCLC record number. Are you saying that you wish Koha could automatically generate a unique control number in the 001? Would you use this differently from the Koha re

Re: [Koha] Marc21 uniform-title and koha

Hi, all-- Yes, much about this is a leftover from card catalogs, when the author (100 $a) would be printed on one line, and the uniform title (240) printed in brackets below it, to allow the card filer to collocate all titles together in the manual file. Uniform title main entries (from the 130,

Re: [Koha] Display question

Hi, Tim-- It's not the normal view of the staff client, but a couple of times I really wanted a printout of a record with everything, including the biblionumber (for later overlaying from OCLC), so I printed the MARC view from the public OPAC--it gives me the MARC record (with the record no. promi

Re: [Koha] Is anyone using EAD for finding aids

Hello! > My agency is looking into using EAD for our finding aids. Is anyone already > using it and how is it working for you? It works very well for us! Our archivists upload the EAD finding aids to the Online Archive of California (the OAC)--before this was available, they were uploaded to ou

Re: [Koha] Best way to catalog serials

Hello! We usually have one bibliographic record for a serial title, with the items for each separate issue (or bound volume) attached. We will make a separate bibliographic record, sometimes, for a special issue on a theme, but it will usually be an analytic record. We usually make the decision

Re: [Koha] Missing lost status in Default framework item record

Hi, all-- Bob wrote: > For the benefit of others, the better way to set lost status is from the record Details page by > selecting the Items tab from those at left. I tried reading through the bugzilla on this to understand why it was changed, but I'm afraid not enough of it was in "librarian" fo

Re: [Koha] Missing lost status in Default framework item record

d. > > Heather, at least in our catalogue, the Lost status being hidden in the > editor only occurs in the default framework.​ > > On Tue, Dec 8, 2015 at 4:08 PM, Hernandez, Heather < > heather_hernan...@nps.gov> wrote: > >> Hi, all-- >> >> Bob wrote: >&

Re: [Koha] Missing lost status in Default framework item record

--Gustaf Lindborg On Tue, Dec 8, 2015 at 1:34 PM, Barton Chittenden < bar...@bywatersolutions.com> wrote: > > > On Tue, Dec 8, 2015 at 11:28 AM, Hernandez, Heather < > heather_hernan...@nps.gov> wrote: >> >> >> I'm *so* eager to try to the new cat

Re: [Koha] Holds Queue Idea for Patrons

Hi! I use the lists for this, both with the Koha system here at work and with my public library's catalog (which isn't Koha, alas!). When I'm ready to read a book, I look at my list, and place hold(s), and take the books off the "to read" list when I've read them. If I really like the book, I'll

Re: [Koha] receiving serials

Hi, Koriann-- I don't know if you're still interested in this topic, but I finally came across a subscription of ours that has occasional combined issues. This is a quarterly with some issues combined: http://keys.bywatersolutions.com/cgi-bin/koha/opac-detail.pl?biblionumber=31493 When we get a

Re: [Koha] Koha and OAI-PMH

Hi-- Elaine wrote: > We use 856$u for a couple serials which are electronic only (we link to > their sites, not to our local copies of them). We also link to digital > versions of some of our 19th century books that are available in archive.org We do the same. We thought of investigating the opt

Re: [Koha] Question about embedded "live search" links

Hi, Basia! Galen is right--I used that method to do a search, and copied/pasted the URL into the March news item on our catalog's front page right now, which links to our titles on women in maritime history (the other link in the news item is to a particular record--Koha gives you stable, record U

Re: [Koha] Question re. config file for OCLC Connexion Gateway

Hi, Gabriela-- We are ByWater clients and have successfully done our reconfiguring, and I use the Gateway with Koha (currently 3.18, but we're ready to upgrade to 3.22 anytime) with the OCLC Connexion Client software. We simply changed the Hostname and Port in the OCLC options' Gateway Export opt

Re: [Koha] [ByWater Partners] Kylie Brice Hall

What wonderful news! Congratulations, Kyle! So happy for you and your family! Cheerio, h2 ~~ Heather Hernandez Technical Services Librarian San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park Research Center 2 Marina Blvd., Bldg. E, 3rd floor, San Francisco, CA 94123 415-561-7032, heat

Re: [Koha] Replace all existing call numbers with LoC

Hi, Daniel-- Although it's common for others systems to be able to copy LC call number information from a bib record 050 or 090 field for display, even pull or copy from those bib fields into item records, Koha doesn't do that, and the displayed call number is from the item record (stored in a 952

Re: [Koha] Replace all existing call numbers with LoC

Hi, Daniel-- I would definitely play with the itemcallnumber system preference that Katrin suggested--it may really save you some keystrokes! When working in OCLC, I do copy the 050 or 090 subfields a & b into a 952 subfield o, e.g. this: 050 _4 VM381 ǂb .R682 1997 Is copied and pasted into this

Re: [Koha] Authority record updates fail- no matches found.

Hi, Raymund-- I overlay (and thus update) authority records based on the 010 $a all the time without any problems--the match & authority record overlay works perfectly. When the appropriate script(s) run on Friday night, all my linked fields in bibs are updated, which also works perfectly. Some

Re: [Koha] New to Koha, but very interested

Hi, Joseph-- We set up (very easily!) our Koha catalog so that anytime someone is looking at a particular record, there is a "more searches" link on the right--you can see it here: http://keys.bywatersolutions.com/cgi-bin/koha/opac-detail.pl?biblionumber=30395 We put in the search targets that ou

Re: [Koha] 777 fields (issued with entry) not displaying

Hi, Elaine-- I'm sorry that I don't have any ideas about the displaying, but it might be a good idea to also display $s, since a lot of serial titles are under uniform titles due to generic 245 titles, & so are using that uniform title in the linking field(s). Good luck! h2 ~~ Heather

Re: [Koha] My next adventure

Oh, man, Nicole! I will SO miss working with you at ByWater, but am delighted to hear that you'll still be part of our community and will continue to work on the manual (without which I'd be always lost)!!! Red Hat is lucky to have you! I wish you tons of happiness in your new job Ever best

Re: [Koha] [Koha-devel] Moving on

My goodness! I will so miss working with you at ByWater, Jesse! Do, please, stay involved with the Koha community, because we want to make that the best bibliographic record editor, ever, right?:):):) Best of luck, and hope to see you around the Community!!! --h2 ~~ Heather Hernandez

[Koha] Sharing advanced bib editor macros?

Hi, all-- I was asked if I had created any macros for the advanced cataloging editor, and it made me realize that I had & that it might be good to get some macro sharing going! I'm not sure the best way to share them--perhaps a macro library on https://koha-community.org/ ? Because why type from

Re: [Koha] Welcome intro

Welcome to the community, Phil! > If you have problem, call a librarian !!. As a librarian, I'd like to put that quote on my wall!:):) And I'm happy to help out with MARC21 questions anytime--I think I know more about MARC than about Koha on most days!:) Cheerio! h2 ~~ Heather Herna

Re: [Koha] Sharing advanced bib editor macros?

os Library. > > One caveat: I don't have the code formatting figured out yet... right now, > I have to add 4 spaces to the start of every line in the macro to get it to > format as code... and you'll have to remove those spaces when you copy the > page into the advanced

Re: [Koha] Sharing advanced bib editor macros?

Oh, that makes so much sense, Barton--thank you for clarifying! And thank you *so* much for creating this page so quickly--I was able to edit the page & remove the stray tilde! Looks like we're cooking with gas, and I'm still on my first cup of coffee!:) I'm cataloging nothing but photos today,

Re: [Koha] Sharing advanced bib editor macros?

I like it, Barton! With Firefox and Chrome, though, I'm seeing the side bar very far down the page--is that just on my device, though? I have to admit, I'm tickled pink to have the word "Developer" near my name! It's like I'm playing with the big kids! Cheerio! h2 ~~ Heather Hernand

Re: [Koha] Sharing advanced bib editor macros?

That's great, Barton & Elaine! This is going to be fun, and will hopefully save a lot of folks some time when they get going with the advanced editor! Barton--are you busy with the Koha US conference? Or can you get started right away? A macro library like the reports library, as Elaine suggest

[Koha] New 3XXs for books macro added to wiki

Hey, all-- I finally have some non-photographic original cataloging, so created & added a "New 3XX fields for book bib record" macro to our Advanced Editor Macros page on the Koha wiki: https://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Advanced_editor_macros (I still have no idea why the side bar is so low on

Re: [Koha] New 3XXs for books macro added to wiki

That's great--thank you for fixing that sidebar, Owen! Cheerio! h2 ~~ Heather Hernandez Technical Services Librarian San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park Research Center 2 Marina Blvd., Bldg. E, 3rd floor, San Francisco, CA 94123 415-561-7032, heather_hernan...@nps.gov http

Re: [Koha] New 3XXs for books macro added to wiki

Thanks for the kind words, everyone--I'm hoping the macros work well & are useful! I'm hoping to keep writing some more as I have a chance to create more original records using our wonderful new editor! (I still love the colors *so* much--the color choices in our shiny new editor really rock!!!)

Re: [Koha] Publisher as authority

Hi, Adam-- If we do want an authority controlled added entry for publisher, we put it in a 710 field. Since the 260 (or 264) field is transcribed from the item, it has to match what is in the item, which may not match the authoritative form of the publisher's name. (We use MARC21, by the way.)

Re: [Koha] Publisher Authority Type

Hi, Krishna-- Is there a reason that you don't want authority records for publishers to be Corporate Name authority records? We sometimes trace publishers (that is, have a 710 field in a bibliographic record linked to a 110 authority record) and it works very well for us--as well as other corpora

Re: [Koha] Koha Maps

Hi, Marshall-- That's a really interesting map! Is there any way to see the libraries using only the community, fully-open source version of Koha? (I'm not interested in how many libraries are using the Liblime fork, for example--I couldn't quite figure out how to use the search tools at the bot

Re: [Koha] Publisher Authority Type

Hi, Krishna! The data in the 260 field (or the 264) is transcribed data--it should be transcribed from the item, and may not be the same as the authorized form of the publisher's name in the authority file. For example, a book may have on the title page (made up example): "Oxford at the Universi

Re: [Koha] Publisher Authority Type

Hi, Krishna-- I have some ideas about your question number 2, but unfortunately I don't know enough about Koha to address your question number 1--so sorry! About your question number 2: yes, publisher name(s) transcribed from items is properly in either the 260 $b field in pre-RDA records or the

Re: [Koha] is koha right for our project run by volunteers?

Hi, all-- Like Bruce, I use Koha at work, and LIbraryThing for my personal library and reading--I even turned on the circulation function of LibraryThing (I felt like *such* a library nerd doing this, by the way!) because it's proven so handy for when I lend people my books--I tend to forget to wh

Re: [Koha] Purchase request vanishes into thin air?

Hi, Elaine-- To see of all our pending purchase suggestions, after clicking "Suggestions pending approval," there is a pull-down menu on the left ("Organize by")--it's set to "Status" but we need to change it to "Library," then click "Go," and then we'll see anonymous purchase suggestions that we

Re: [Koha] Purchase request vanishes into thin air?

Hi-- On Wed, Nov 7, 2012 at 2:22 PM, Elaine Bradtke wrote: > I tried that too. Changing the Organized by: filter does not change the > results. > Do you have an Anonymous patron set up? I tried that too (patron 0). Maybe > I've done something wrong there? We do have an Anonymous patron set u

Re: [Koha] Purchase request vanishes into thin air?

Hi-- On Wed, Nov 7, 2012 at 2:38 PM, Elaine Bradtke wrote: > Just tried changing Anonymous from and adult patron to a member of staff, > and then submitting a purchase suggestion Still didn't work. There is no > password set for this imaginary person, correct? We do have a username and password

Re: [Koha] A query on 008 character 39

Hi-- On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 4:41 PM, Indranil Das Gupta wrote: > this is more of a query for the catalogers. At the 39th character, of 008, > Koha offers - #, c, d, u, | > > Are this values arbitrary? Would it be correct to encode an additional > value in the plugin template for a specific librar

Re: [Koha] 505 tag: formatted contents notes

Hi, Paula-- On Tue, Mar 5, 2013 at 8:32 AM, Paula Corman wrote: I am cataloging a collection of several hundred CDs, each of which contains at least 12 or more songs with potentially as many different performers. A few days ago I was cataloging a 2-volume title ... Do I simply duplicate the 505

Re: [Koha] Serials - uploading data and setting up, suggestions and advice needed

Hi-- On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 10:45 AM, Elaine Bradtke wrote: > We're coming to the point in our conversion process where I need to start > thinking about serials. > ... > * Create an item record when receiving this serial: > I don't think we want to create an item record for each issue, they ne

Re: [Koha] koha and photographs

Hi-- We have a few photograph collections cataloged as such, e.g.: http://keys.bywatersolutions.com/cgi-bin/koha/opac-detail.pl?biblionumber=28068 We also have some archival collections that contain, or are primarily, photographs, cataloged at the collection level, with records in our Koha catalo

Re: [Koha] koha and photographs

Hi-- > What could be the MARC > tag for place taken? I'm thinking it still is 260$a And date taken? 260$c? We use the 260 (or 264 with RDA) fields for information on the creation of the photographic media if we have it (the negative, print, etc.) supplemented by notes if needed. We include a sum

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