[Koha-bugs] [Bug 19419] 008 Material type reverts Book

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https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=19419

--- Comment #17 from John Sterbenz <jsterben at umich.edu> ---
I just discovered the 006 matter Elaine discusses in her message of 5/29/2020.

The 006 should only reference the first byte (Byte 00) of itself when
determining what should be used in the rest of the 006 field.  Currently, this
appears to always revert back to books (Byte 00 of 006 = "a"), regardless of
what it is actually set to.  E-Books will have this set to "m" for computer
files, for example.

Even inserting a brand new 006 into the record, correctly coded, exhibits this
behavior just like existing 006 fields do.

Interestingly, the 007, which functions similarly to the 006 in that its first
byte determines how the rest of the field is laid out, DOES work correctly.

I view this as a separate, yet related, error to what's under discussion here
since there should be no dependence on any other value other than 006 Byte 00
to determine how the remainder of the 006 should be defined--unlike how the 008
will refer to bytes in the Leader to make this determination.

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