https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=38042
--- Comment #6 from Mathieu Saby <[email protected]> --- Thanks for these explanations. Maybe Biblibre would present things differently, but from my point of view, here is how it works for us and why : We use items.itype as a "type of loan". I believe this is pretty common in other libraries in France. Perhaps not all of them. It gives the ability to define specific rules for for items attached to the same record. Frequent situation if the items belong to different libraries, but it can happen if they belong to different sections of the same library. - item A : can be checked out with standard loan period => in items.itype we choose a value like "NORMALLOAN" - item B : must have a shorter loan period => in items.itype we choose a value like "SHORTLOAN" - item C : cannot be checked out (but staff can override) => in items.itype we choose a value like "NOLOAN" In my library we also items.ccode as a "type of material". I believe it is less common. We had a "material type" at item level in our previous ILS and wanted to keep this information. Our biblioitems.itemtype is calculated from the coded fields of the record, which is imported from our national union catalog. So the item level material type gives us more flexibility to define custom specific types. Something like "object" at record level and "chessboard" at item level. It is especially useful when the record level item type is something like "multisupport document" : if the document is a CD with a book, we can assign the type "CD" to one item ccode, and the type "book" to the other item, and know for example if the book or the CD was lost by a reader. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are watching all bug changes. You are the assignee for the bug. _______________________________________________ Koha-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://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/
