Paul wrote:
In the MARC part of the DB, the complete 260c field will be stored, of course. So it's possible for the librarian to find what you asked. The numeric value is only for the koha-DB. This one is used in opac search (although it should be possible & easy to add MARC search in opac too), and in some lists. For example, when you search for a book, the list shows title, author, copyrightdate & nb of items.
with this explanation, do you change your mind & agree with rosalie ?
Ah, if only the Koha-DB was used to find the record, and the MARC-DB was used to display it -- then we'd have the best of both worlds. But if I have to choose one, I'd have to say that the "stripped" date -- just the date, no other information -- is the better thing to store in the Koha-DB. That makes searching and administration easier, and it's always possible to re- work templates later to pull additional information from the marc_subfield_table -- right? Stephen