[Koha-devel] Koha Statuses and MARC?

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The best thing is to keep MARC as standard as you can...

Ed Sharpe archivist for SMECC.





> Paul et al,
> 
> In Paul's proposed scheme for item statuses, the items.notforloan 
> field is linked to MARC field 942$k and then an authorized value 
> is set for that field (defined by the library). Before we invest 
> too much development energy on this idea I'd like to question 
> whether it's even a good idea to store status information in the 
> MARC record, especially we we move toward using Zebra to store our 
> textual (MARC) database.
> 
> Stephen and I spoke earlier today and he's got me thinking that maybe
> it's not such a good idea to store statuses in MARC. MARC wasn't 
> really designed for anything but the static record information. It's
> ill-suited for transactional based data such as statuses.
> 
> I propose that for Koha 3.0 we create a new field in the Koha tables
> called 'items.status'. items.status can be a numeric value and have
> a set of library-defined authorized values. We can then add a framework
> for setting those values that a library must setup when they install
> the system. For instance, it should be possible to set Koha to
> automatically set an items status to 'in transit' when an item is
> on reserve to a patron in a branch other than the holdingbranch (when
> the item is returned) and 'waiting' when it arrives and is scanned.
> But the goal would be to make this a setting that the library could
> define when setting Koha up, a set of 'status rules'.
> 
> Comments, suggestions, volunteers?
> 
> Cheers,
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Thanks,

Ed Sharpe, Archivist for SMECC 

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