[Koha-bugs] [Bug 34128] Series entry in the 490 field causes the ordering of items to change in the holdings table

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https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=34128

--- Comment #7 from Phil Ringnalda <phil at chetcolibrary.org> ---
By default, UNIMARC maps biblio.serial to both 099$s and 942$s, neither one
editable by default, and maps biblio.seriestitle to nothing at all. So in
UNIMARC you only get biblio.serial if you either make one of the $s subfields
editable, or you map biblio.seriestitle to something thinking that doing so
will do you some good.

I can agree that being a volume in a series has no relationship whatsoever to
being a serial, if that helps. According to the first session in
https://www.loc.gov/catworkshop/courses/naco-full%20series-RDA/course%20table.html
in 2013 when they last updated their numbers, 89.4% of the series headings in
the LC/NACO name authority database were monograph series ("Annual report of
the tin production in Moldavia"), and monograph series are serials by
definition, unlike multipart monograph series ("Continents of the world") that
have a fixed ending. So I can't agree that "a volume in a series is not a
serial," only that "a volume in a series either is or is not a serial."

I would sign off a patch that removes setting biblio.serial based on
biblio.seriestitle in a heartbeat. More than a heartbeat: it's only set in
AddBiblio, not ModBiblio, so you have to have a seriestitle when you first save
a record to have serial set.

Even better, ModBiblio actually gets rid of it. The first time you save a
biblio without a seriestitle, serial is set to 0, but if you save it again it
is reset to null; the first time you save a biblio with a seriestitle, serial
is set to 1, but if you save it again it is set to null, making the whole
seriestitle -> serial thing useless.

Workaround for Matt's clients who are annoyed by unsorted items from a 490
existing: edit the biblio and save it without making any changes. Poof, no
longer a serial.

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