[Koha-devel] Serials and MARC

[Spencer Anspach]

I think MARC *holdings* are meant. Any time I've been involved with
discussions of MARC in the context of serials, the implied meaning is MARC
holdings records--that's the most important part to serials catalogers.
 Spencer

 On 10/8/05, Stephen Hedges <shedges at skemotah.com> wrote:
>
> I guess I'm not fully understanding the problem here. You already have to
> create a biblio record in Koha before you can add a serials subscription.
> So if you're using MARC biblios, I would assume you create a MARC record
> for the serial. For MARC 21, LoC gives an example:
> http://www.loc.gov/marc/bibliographic/serial.html.
>
> Holdings are another matter -- we *do* have a problem there. But it seems
> Koha otherwise already allows for MARC records for serials.
>
> (What did I misunderstand?)
>
> Stephen
>
> Joshua Ferraro said:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I've been speaking to a couple of US law libraries who are very
> > interested in Koha. All seems well except for one hitch: they
> > require that serials be MARC-compliant. So my question is, what
> > would be involved in 'linking' a serial to a MARC record? Also,
> > what would be the best way to handle 'holdings' in such a
> > scenerio. There are likely some funds available to get Koha where
> > it needs to be so let's try to figure out what the best way to
> > proceed is ... any comments?
> >
> > Cheers,
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