[Koha-devel] what are biblio, biblioitems and items tables

[paul POULAIN]

Tonnesen Steve wrote:

>As an example, consider a book called "Let It Snow" by Steve Tonnesen
>The biblio table would hold copyright information like title, author,
>copyright date, etc.
>Now, it turns out that my Let It Snow book was published in three
>different formats, hard cover, big book, and braille.
>These three different publications would have separate biblioitems
>records.
>The library has four copies of the hard cover books, six copies of the big
>book and one copy of the braille book.  Each of these 11 items would have
>a separate items entry.
>
Very clear, thanks a lot.

>
>The MARC db scheme that I used, of course, is radically different from all
>of this.  I'll try to document what I've done so far in another email a
>little later.
>
I think this will be very usefull.
I you could spend a few minuts to explain how the marc system works, I 
would be very thankfull.
--
Paul