[Koha-devel] [Koha] RFC for MARC holdings record support

Ere Maijala ere.maijala at helsinki.fi
Thu Apr 5 09:23:17 CEST 2018


Good morning!

Thanks for the feedback. I added a note to the RFC about embedded 
holdings in bibliographic records. They cover a lot of needs and we have 
considered embedding the holdings, but there are issues if there are 
multiple holdings.

Regards,
Ere

Sebastian Hierl kirjoitti 5.4.2018 klo 10.08:
> Good morning!
> 
> I think that the feature would provide added flexibility, in particular 
> for monographic series and periodicals.  Institutions who currently work 
> with an ILS that has holdings records would want to see the same in 
> Koha, should they be considering Koha.  We currently use the 866 to 
> display holdings information, thus I don't see this as essential, but it 
> would be a useful enhancement.
> 
> Greetings from Rome,
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> On Wed, Apr 4, 2018 at 5:11 PM, Nick Clemens <nick at bywatersolutions.com 
> <mailto:nick at bywatersolutions.com>> wrote:
> 
>     There was some discussion of this at the IRC meeting today,
>     forwarding on
>     to the general list as well for librarian input/feedback
> 
>     On Tue, Apr 3, 2018 at 3:33 AM Ere Maijala <ere.maijala at helsinki.fi
>     <mailto:ere.maijala at helsinki.fi>> wrote:
> 
>      > Hi Katrin,
>      >
>      > Thanks for the comments. I'll try to clarify the RFC.
>      >
>      > --Ere
>      >
>      > Katrin Fischer kirjoitti 1.4.2018 klo 17.32:
>      > > Hi Ere,
>      > >
>      > > thx for your work on that! I've added some comments and
>     questions at the
>      > > bottom of the RFC page. I think key is to break the big
>     development down
>      > > into multiple steps that can be easily tested.
>      > >
>      > > Katrin
>      > >
>      > >
>      > > On 26.03.2018 12:58, Ere Maijala wrote:
>      > >> Hi Everyone,
>      > >>
>      > >> I've written an RFC for adding support for MARC holdings records,
>      > >> available here:
>      > >>
>     <https://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/MARC_Holdings_Records_RFC
>     <https://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/MARC_Holdings_Records_RFC>>. I'd
>      > >> be grateful for any feedback on this. I know there have been some
>      > >> initiatives to add (back) holdings records, but this proposal
>     is a bit
>      > >> different in that it relies on the MARC format and I already
>     have it
>      > >> working in a local custom branch apart from OPAC support.
>      > >>
>      > >> Regards,
>      > >> Ere
>      > >>
>      > >
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