[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 #11 from Heather <heather_hernandez at nps.gov> ---
I don't think the problem is inherent in MARC because I've never worked with or
seen another ILS that has this problem.

But I also edited a DVD record in the Bywater demo 19.11.05.000 and could not
replicate the problem there, nor can I replicate the problem in our 19.05
catalog.  I edited the 008 in the basic editor and the advanced editor, and it
remained, "Material type: Film."  I edited another variable field, and the
material type remained "Film"--it didn't change to "Book" at all.  I did the
same with two other types of records, and they didn't change to material type
"Book."

So I then imported a record for Project Gutenberg into the Bywater demo and WAS
able to replicate the problem, this record:
https://catalog.bywatersolutions.com/cgi-bin/koha/opac-detail.pl?biblionumber=117408
I even tried in the basic editor to change the 008 to one appropriate for a
computer file, and it reverted to BKS.  I then tried in the basic editor to
change the 008 to one for Mixed Media, and it reverted to BKS.  So I could
replicate the problem with this record.

I then tried to change the 008 for this record, a DVD, to various other
formats, and it always reverted to "Film"--it wouldn't let me change it's 008,
and I couldn't replicate the problem with that record:
https://catalog.bywatersolutions.com/cgi-bin/koha/opac-detail.pl?biblionumber=10884

So does this have something to do with the fact that Koha makes a record
conform to a particular MARC template?  That a record imported as a "BK" always
reverts to that?  Koha is the only system that I know of that has this
requirement for bibliographic and authority records--that they conform to
preset templates. (E.g., I can't simply change the 100 field in an authority
record to a 150.) With other systems a cataloger can type in a record without
selecting a template ahead of time, or if a template is selected, it can be
readily changed.  Maybe it's something about the template that's causing the
record to revert to BKS?

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