[Koha-devel] koha - length of records - separation of item from biblios

[Linda Culberson]

Can anyone tell me if Evergreen has a similar problem?
Thanks in advance.

On 3/1/2011 11:31 AM, MJ Ray wrote:
> Linda Culberson asked:
>> There is an "abandoned RFC" for "Stop copying item records to bib's MARC
>> and MARCXML RFC" .
>>
>> Could someone tell me why this was abandoned, because I think having the
>> item record data exists both in the items table and as MARC fields in
>> the bib record is an a terrible shortcoming of Koha for academic and
>> research libraries with large numbers of items for certain titles.
>
> My notes say that RFC was created by a LibLime worker, so a current or
> former LibLime worker may have a definitive answer... BUT:
>
> I suspect it may have been abandoned because one of the MARC fields is
> sent to the Zebra index server and there are benefits like faster
> availability searches if the item data is indexed by Zebra.
>
> Hope that helps,

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