[Koha-oz] Fwd: [Koha] e-books as Koha items <> Cataloguing querry

[Irma Birchall]

Dear Koha-oz e-list reader,

Giuseppe has emailed the main Koha e-list with an interesting question. He
has received one reply so far from Elaine Bradtke.

I wonder if you might have some thoughts and could share your experience or
practices?

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your reply. Giuseppe's email is Giuseppe.Angilella at ct.infn.it and Elaine's
eb at efdss.org.

Best regards,
Irma
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From: Giuseppe Angilella <Giuseppe.Angilella at ct.infn.it>
Date: 2017-06-15 14:13 GMT+10:00
Subject: [Koha] e-books as Koha items
To: koha at lists.katipo.co.nz


Hi,

I've just started populating my library's catalog with e-book readers and
e-books.

I've defined different item types for either e-readers and e-books, and
classified the former as "equipment" and the latter as "monographs" in the
appropriate MARC record fields (leader etc).

For a given e-reader type (Kindle, say) I may have several items. These are
distinct, as they have a different serial number, and receive therefore a
distinct barcode. Similarly, they can be borrowed individually. Therefore,
they perfectly qualify as "Koha items".

On the other hand, an e-book is entered as a specific record (which is
distinct from the record of the corresponding hardcopy, if also available),
with a cross-link to the e-reader's record in the 773 MARC field.

Originally, I thought that no physical item should be attached to an
e-book, since it is the e-reader, and not the e-book, which can be
borrowed. However, this prevents the e-book to appear in the "Browse shelf"
feature, close to books with similar topic (which is very useful for
patrons).

One solution might be that of restricting the e-book type to "no loan", but
then the cross-link to the appropriate e-reader would be contained in the
record (Koha's biblioitem), and not in the item (Koha's item), which might
be confusing for the patron.

Another solution might be that of devising some kind of "virtual items".
Several "virtual items" (say, several e-books) could be mapped onto a
single (physical) "item", so that whenever the (physical) item is on loan,
all of the "virtual items" contained by it are also set "on loan". A
"virtual item" could then be shelved, receive a call number etc
appropriately, and therefore show consistently in Koha's "browse shelf"
feature.

I would very much appreciate receiving your feedback on my thoughts above.

Best regards,

Giuseppe.
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From: Elaine Bradtke <eb at efdss.org> via
<https://support.google.com/mail/answer/1311182?hl=fr> gmail.com
To: Giuseppe Angilella <Giuseppe.Angilella at ct.infn.it>
cc: koha <koha at lists.katipo.co.nz>
Date: 20 juin 2017 à 08:36
Subject: Re: [Koha] e-books as Koha items
List koha at lists.katipo.co.nz


Giuseppe, koha
Just to clarify
You have e-readers with e-books loaded on them already.
Is the content of each e-reader different or the same?

It sounds like you have an assemblage. Components that are separate
publications, but  housed in one physical unit. We have a similar situation
with bound together collections of pamphlets.  We made a parent (host)
biblio for the bound volume and individual records for each of the
pamphlets child (component records).  We  list all the children in the
formatted contents note of the parent record and link from the child
records to the parent record using the 773.
This is a child record, with link to the parent record Political pamphlets
from 1820.
http://catalogue.efdss.org/cgi-bin/koha/opac-detail.pl?biblionumber=13278 -

 It is true we can't browse the shelf from the individual components
(children), but by looking at the contents note in the host (parent) record
it is possible to see what else is in that volume.
If the call number for the e-reader reflected the subject area of its
contents, that might help in browsing.
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Elaine Bradtke
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