[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] 008 field and leader

[Dan Scott]

We could add an ON CREATE trigger on biblio.record_entry to set the
first six characters of 008 (if it exists in the record - I'm not sure
we want to get into the business of creating 008 fields from scratch)
by invoking to_char(create_date, 'YYMMDD') to get the properly
formatted version of the date.

This is probably something we should have in place out of the box;
it's a relatively small piece of work for an additional standards
compliance checkmark. Mieke, would you mind adding a wishlist item on
this point to http://bugs.launchpad.net/evergreen ?

Dan

On Sat, Jun 25, 2011 at 10:51 AM, Joel Harbottle
<Joel.Harbottle at hotmail.com.au> wrote:
> Hi Mieke,
>
> I know with the 008 tag in Evergreen you can click on the line and highlight
> the 070101 and change it to the current date, e.g., 110625, and then just
> complete the 008 tag as you normally would, either directly in the text of
> the tag, or via the table/grid at the top of the MARC Editor screen.
>
> I hope this helps.
>
> Kindest Regards,
> Joel
>
>
> ________________________________
>> From: Mieke Stroo <mst at iisg.nl>
>> Reply-To: Evergreen Discussion Group
>> <open-ils-general at list.georgialibraries.org>
>> Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2011 14:41:56 +0200
>> To: Evergreen Discussion Group
>> <open-ils-general at list.georgialibraries.org>
>> Subject: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] 008 field and leader
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> The IISG in Amsterdam is running EG 2.0.3. We noticed that the 008 field
>> always starts with 070101, presumably January first 2007. Could anyone
>> tell us
>> how to have this date changed automatically when entering a new record? Is
>> it
>> possible to have a computer generated date in this field?
>>
>> The positions 0-4 and 12-16 in the leader are unclear to us. According to
>> the
>> MARC 21 standard this information should be computer generated. Is it
>> alright
>> to use a set number (00620) for the positions 0-4 and leave the positions
>> 12-16 open?
>>
>> Mieke Stroo
>>
>> IISG
>> Postbus 2169
>> 1000 CD Amsterdam
>> The Netherlands
>>
>> mst at iisg.nl
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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