Very helpful information! Thank you to everyone who provided clarification! I think this is what I was looking for in particular:
--"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."-- Tasha Bales Enterprise Services http://isesi.web.boeing.com/ -----Original Message----- From: Koha [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Caroline Cyr-La-Rose Sent: Friday, October 15, 2021 07:22 To: [email protected] Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: [Koha] Reason to define Koha item type in 942 EXT email: be mindful of links/attachments. 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, < > [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 Caroline Cyr La Rose, M.S.I. Bibliothécaire | Responsable de produit Tél. : 1-833-465-4276, poste 221 [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> INLiBRO | Spécialistes en technologies documentaires | www.inLibro.com <http://www.inLibro.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
