[Koha-bugs] [Bug 28133] New: Show subscription information on multiple bibliographic records

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https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=28133

            Bug ID: 28133
           Summary: Show subscription information on multiple
                    bibliographic records
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           Product: Koha
           Version: unspecified
          Hardware: All
                OS: All
            Status: NEW
          Severity: enhancement
          Priority: P5 - low
         Component: Serials
          Assignee: koha-bugs at lists.koha-community.org
          Reporter: katrin.fischer at bsz-bw.de
        QA Contact: testopia at bugs.koha-community.org

I am not sure yet on how this would be implemented best, so I am starting with
a description of the use case:

Serials are odd things. They can change their names quite frequently, they can
divide, merge, and so on. This is usually reflected in using 780/785 linking
records for the different "versions" of the serial.

A subscription can currently only be linked to one record at a time. So in case
of a name change of the serial, what can we do?

- We can close the current subscription and start a new one on the record. This
way the serial issues will show on the record with the title matching. The
holdings will now be divided up on different records. But this might cause
issues with your acq orders and will make it really hard to keep history as
things are split up over multiple records.

- We can change the bibliographic record the subscription is linked to and move
all the information to the "latest" version of the serial. This keeps all the
issues and subscription information in one spot, but in the OPAC there are no
longer any issues showing at the older record.

So what could we do? Ideas:

- Make it possible to keep track of the biblionumber an issue was created for
(there is already an "unused" field in the database). We could use this to
control display and show issues on different records, not only the current one.

- Make it possible to link the subscription to a current and additional
biblionumbers where you want to show your holdings.

... ?

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