Hi Tasha, 942$c - defines the type of material the bibliographic record represents, sort of like it's GMD (general material description). Has no bearing on circulation of material. Stored as marcxml in biblio_metadata.
952$y - defines the item-level item, and is used mandatorily for Koha's circulation rules which work as a permutation of (a) branchcodes (b) patron categories and (c) item-level item types. Stored as itype column in items table. Hope this helps Indranil On Fri, 15 Oct, 2021, 12:44 am Bales (US), Tasha R, < [email protected]> wrote: > Good afternoon, > > I recall reading (in the Koha manual?) the explanation for why it is > advantageous to define Koha item type in the bib 942 field. I believe it > has to do with exporting records, or the scope of records that is included > when doing some type of report? I'm trying to locate that information > again, but can't find it for the life of me. > > Does this seem familiar to anyone? Thanks. > > > Tasha Bales > Enterprise Services > http://isesi.web.boeing.com/ > > _______________________________________________ > > Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org > [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha > _______________________________________________ Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha
