[Koha-devel] Itemtype and MARC21 Quandry

[Sylvain Machefert]

Hi all,
I sent a mail one week ago about this same problem for a library who has
books for adults and books for children with different issuing rules but the
same notice. I'm in favour of linking the itemptype to the item, not to the
biblioitem.

hope there'll be an elegant fix for that ...

Sylvain

----- Original Message -----
From: "Joshua Ferraro" <jmf at liblime.com>
To: <koha-devel at lists.sourceforge.net>
Sent: Friday, September 30, 2005 3:45 PM
Subject: [Koha-devel] Itemtype and MARC21 Quandry


> Hi all,
>
> So here's a problem. Say a library has a system that allows a single
> MARC21 record to specify record types within the record in the 852$6
> and allows issuing rules to happen on the item level rather than on
> the record level. I'm not sure if this is valid MARC21 practice, but
> I do know of at lease one system that works this way.
>
> When such a library converts to Koha, only one of the itemtypes is
> valid for the whole record, meaning that they will lose the ability
> to define issuing rules at the item level. The only solution seems
> to be to break up each record into multiple records, one for each
> itemtype (as a temporary fix).
>
> So I'm wondering, should we be defining issuing rules at the item
> level in Koha 3.0 for MARC21? or should we continue to define them
> soley on the record level?
>
> Cheers,
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