[Koha-devel] Re: [Bug 516] biblioitems.itemtype does not load

[Stephen Hedges]

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> In the default DB, the field itemtypes is mapped 
> to 300$f. If i read all 
> 300 subfields, i see that it speaks of "item 
> physical description", 
> that's what biblioitems is supposed to speak of.

The 300$f tag contains information like "300 pages," "videodisc," etc -- 
literally, a physical description.  itemtypes is a code devised by the library, 
e.g. "DVD" (not "videodisc"), so your mapping won't work with standard MARC21 
cataloguing practice.

I can probably write a script to populate biblioitems.itemtype from the values 
stored in marc_subfield_table.  But unless something changes in the way Koha 
_imports_ MARC data, every library that tries to migrate to Koha will have the 
very same problem. Bug!

Stephen