Hi all, I sent a mail one week ago about this same problem for a library who has books for adults and books for children with different issuing rules but the same notice. I'm in favour of linking the itemptype to the item, not to the biblioitem. hope there'll be an elegant fix for that ... Sylvain ----- Original Message ----- From: "Joshua Ferraro" <jmf@liblime.com> To: <koha-devel@lists.sourceforge.net> Sent: Friday, September 30, 2005 3:45 PM Subject: [Koha-devel] Itemtype and MARC21 Quandry
Hi all,
So here's a problem. Say a library has a system that allows a single MARC21 record to specify record types within the record in the 852$6 and allows issuing rules to happen on the item level rather than on the record level. I'm not sure if this is valid MARC21 practice, but I do know of at lease one system that works this way.
When such a library converts to Koha, only one of the itemtypes is valid for the whole record, meaning that they will lose the ability to define issuing rules at the item level. The only solution seems to be to break up each record into multiple records, one for each itemtype (as a temporary fix).
So I'm wondering, should we be defining issuing rules at the item level in Koha 3.0 for MARC21? or should we continue to define them soley on the record level?
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