[Koha-devel] How best to support MARC21 880?

[Katrin Fischer]

Hi David,

I wonder if pulling this information from the MARC record could slow us
down in some places where usually the information is only pulled from
biblio/biblioitems.

I like the idea of making the display configurable, but maybe not only
using CSS, but having a multi-select system preference to choose where
to display.

Also in testing we should probably consider both LTR and RTL scripts.

Hope this helps,

Katrin

On 22.12.22 05:18, David Cook wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> The MARC21 880 field allows you to provide alternative graphical
> representations for pretty much any other MARC field.
>
> Typically, in Koha (and perhaps other library systems), we display
> these alternative graphical representations on the “detail page”. You
> can see the roman script, the Arabic script, the Chinese script, etc.
>
> In Koha, we also show some data in the search results, and that’s more
> problematic… because the search results should take up a limited
> amount of space on the screen, but hypothetically you can include many
> different scripts via the 880. I used to work in a government library
> in Canada where many of our bibliographic records contained quite a
> few different 880s. So it does happen.
>
> I have a library that has catalogued records using the roman alphabet
> (ie using Pinyin) and provided Chinese versions via the 880. They’d
> like to show both the romanized and Chinese versions throughout Koha
> (e.g. in the cart, checkout screens, course reserves, etc.)
>
> I’ve coded some of those customizations, since they only have 880s in
> Chinese, but I’m increasingly reluctant to make these changes. I don’t
> want to carry these customizations locally, but I don’t know that the
> Koha community would accept these changes.
>
> What do you all think about this?
>
> Should we include every 880 title and author in every screen? Should
> we maybe include them but hide them by default using CSS and then
> allow certain libraries to just show particular languages used by
> their patrons or by checking the current language?
>
> I know I can go faster on my own, but I rather go farther with all of
> you, so please let me know your thoughts : )
>
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