http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=13381
[email protected] changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |[email protected] --- Comment #16 from [email protected] --- Statement of Responsibility: I am a cataloger and I do like the full statement of responsibility, ie the whole 245 field, to display at the top of the record. I think it is in fact helpful to patrons, because it is written in plain language and so clearly indicates to a patron whether the record they've found matches their needs. It is fairly common in other systems and academic libraries to include the full statement, because it readily helps patrons understand what the record is a surrogate for, i.e. which book exactly the record really represents. Furthermore, sometimes the statement differs from what is included in 100s and 700s, because it is up to the cataloger's taste and judgement to decide whether to make an access point for those folks listed in the statement. So, as a result, you could have important bibliographic information included in the statement, but no where else in the record, which is another reason I think many systems chose to display it. GMD/Medium: Because there will be a mix of legacy AACR2 and new RDA records in our catalogs, we can no longer *consistently* rely on the GMD as the indicator of medium. The good news is, there are other indicators in the record that are consistent across AACR2 and RDA records, like the material type that is pulled from MARC's fixed fields/leader and already populates a Type tag in the record; a new medium or format tag that pulled the GMD in would be duplicative of this in my opinion. The type selected for the items, as well as any call number prefixes that might be use for DVDs or Ebooks, as also consistent indicators, not to mention RDA's new 33x fields. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are watching all bug changes. _______________________________________________ Koha-bugs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.koha-community.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/koha-bugs website : http://www.koha-community.org/ git : http://git.koha-community.org/ bugs : http://bugs.koha-community.org/
