At 11:04 AM -0500 2/23/09, Eric Bégin wrote:
I do have an Koha installation that has a strange problem. The MARC Fields are not numerically ordered. ... Anybody know how those fields are sorted?
MARC fields don't necessarily need to be sorted numerically, especially for 5xx and 6xx fields. Some catalogers say the fields should be in tag number order, but others say that the 5xx should be in AACR2 order, or in order of importance (allowing for putting a field first if deemed more important than AACR2 order would have it). So, for video records, 538 should be the first note, followed by 546, then other notes. For 6xx, the order is of importance/relevance--the most important subject heading would be listed 1st and is often intended to match the classifications. For example, if a book is chiefly about United States--Politics and government--2001-, with some coverage (more than 20%, less than U.S. politics and government) of Presidents--United States--Biography, the 6xx would have 651 followed by 650. The system should not reorder the fields unless explicitly told to do so by the cataloger. I hope this helps, Bryan Baldus Cataloger Quality Books Inc. The Best of America's Independent Presses 1-800-323-4241x402 bryan.baldus@quality-books.com eijabb@cpan.org http://home.inwave.com/eija