Hello!
I'd like to add to Indranil's explanation.
952$y is mandatory for circulation IF item-level_itypes is set to
"specific item". Otherwise, 942$c is used as the item type for circulation.
Another thing that I have observed about 942$c is that it is indexed for
the search in the same way as 952$y. So if you have records without
items (for journal articles, websites or ebooks for example), these will
still be searchable through the item type filter.
Also, if 942$c and 952$y are not the same in one record (for example,
942$c is Book and 952$y is Reference), they will show in the results of
a search for either type.
I'm making a note to compile all our comments to add into the manual,
since that's where you searched for the information first.
https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=29252
Best regards,
Caroline
On 2021-10-15 10 h 02, Indranil Das Gupta wrote:
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, <
tasha.r.ba...@boeing.com> 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/
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