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Re: [Koha-devel] Koha Statuses and MARC?
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Paul POULAIN |
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Re: [Koha-devel] Koha Statuses and MARC? |
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Tue Sep 13 02:16:18 2005 |
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Joshua Ferraro a écrit :
Paul et al,
In Paul's proposed scheme for item statuses, the items.notforloan
field is linked to MARC field 942$k and then an authorized value
is set for that field (defined by the library). Before we invest
too much development energy on this idea I'd like to question
whether it's even a good idea to store status information in the
MARC record, especially we we move toward using Zebra to store our
textual (MARC) database.
I just want to explain again that, imho, there are 2 different "status" :
* the "permanent" status. the one that is set by the librarian, and that
don't change often neither automatically. For example, when a library
has 2 books, they often choose to set 1 issuable, and the other not. Or
a book that is issued for a long term to another library, so not really
in the library anymore...
* the "small duration" status. it's the one that is set by the book
normal life, like "on issue", "in transit", "reserved". Those statuses
are NOT in items.notforloan field, and I 100% agree they don't have to
be (the have not to be...)
But I think the "permanent" status can be in MARC item. No perf problem
& interesting information for the borrower.
Note that in "recommandation 995", the 995$o is reserved for this
(although non mandatory)
--
Paul POULAIN
Consultant indépendant en logiciels libres
responsable francophone de koha (SIGB libre http://www.koha-fr.org)