Re: [Koha] How to use Item Type ?

2016-04-13 Thread Joy Nelson
Additionally, if you have bibliographic records without any items (electronic resources) you will need an itemtype at the bib level (942c) to allow for patrons to search for that type of resource. -joy On Wed, Apr 13, 2016 at 6:58 AM, Owen Leonard wrote: > > What is the

Re: [Koha] How to use Item Type ?

2016-04-13 Thread Owen Leonard
> What is the necessity of calling "Item type" (942c) at Record level > instead of calling it as "record type". > Circulation rules are defined for ITEMS which are associated with a RECORD. ByWater Solutions posted something about this recently. The short answer is that without a biblio-level

Re: [Koha] How to use Item Type ?

2016-04-12 Thread SATISH
it might be a silly question, but I believe, similar question has been asked in the forum before but I did not get clarified. since "item type" is used for defining circulation rules, "Item Type" (952y) at "Item" level sounds good. What is the necessity of calling "Item type" (942c) at Record

Re: [Koha] How to use Item Type ?

2016-04-01 Thread vikram zadgaonkar
+1 On 01-Apr-2016 7:07 PM, "Indranil Das Gupta" wrote: > On Apr 1, 2016 7:03 PM, "Joy Nelson" wrote: > > > > Satish- > > The benefit of having > > two itemtypes is that it may be more clear to your users that one is > > REFERENCE and the other is a

Re: [Koha] How to use Item Type ?

2016-04-01 Thread Indranil Das Gupta
On Apr 1, 2016 7:03 PM, "Joy Nelson" wrote: > > Satish- > The benefit of having > two itemtypes is that it may be more clear to your users that one is > REFERENCE and the other is a 'normal' BOOK. +1 > Joy > ___ Koha mailing

Re: [Koha] How to use Item Type ?

2016-04-01 Thread Joy Nelson
Satish- Yes you can use multiple itemtypes on one bibliographic record. Both of the options you list would work in your situation. The benefit of having two itemtypes is that it may be more clear to your users that one is REFERENCE and the other is a 'normal' BOOK. Joy On Fri, Apr 1, 2016 at

[Koha] How to use Item Type ?

2016-04-01 Thread satishamv
Hi, I have a basic question regarding Item Type. Item Type is required for Circulation Policy settings and Report generation, etc. For a Single Bibliographic RECORD (book) having 2 copies (ITEM), Say example, Item Type 1 = "Book" meant for Circulation and Item Type 2 ="Reference Book" meant