Can anyone tell me if Evergreen has a similar problem? Thanks in advance. On 3/1/2011 11:31 AM, MJ Ray wrote:
Linda Culberson asked:
There is an "abandoned RFC" for "Stop copying item records to bib's MARC and MARCXML RFC" .
Could someone tell me why this was abandoned, because I think having the item record data exists both in the items table and as MARC fields in the bib record is an a terrible shortcoming of Koha for academic and research libraries with large numbers of items for certain titles.
My notes say that RFC was created by a LibLime worker, so a current or former LibLime worker may have a definitive answer... BUT:
I suspect it may have been abandoned because one of the MARC fields is sent to the Zebra index server and there are benefits like faster availability searches if the item data is indexed by Zebra.
Hope that helps,
-- Linda Culberson lculber@mdah.state.ms.us Archives and Records Services Division Ms. Dept. of Archives & History P. O. Box 571 Jackson, MS 39205-0571 Telephone: 601/576-6873 Facsimile: 601/576-6824