Re: [Koha-devel] what are biblio, biblioitems and items tables

[paul POULAIN]

Tonnesen Steve wrote:

> As an example, consider a book called "Let It Snow" by Steve Tonnesen
> The biblio table would hold copyright information like title, author,
> copyright date, etc.
> Now, it turns out that my Let It Snow book was published in three
> different formats, hard cover, big book, and braille.
> These three different publications would have separate biblioitems
> records.
> The library has four copies of the hard cover books, six copies of the big
> book and one copy of the braille book.  Each of these 11 items would have
> a separate items entry.
Very clear, thanks a lot.

> The MARC db scheme that I used, of course, is radically different from all
> of this.  I'll try to document what I've done so far in another email a
> little later.
I think this will be very usefull.
I you could spend a few minuts to explain how the marc system works, I 
would be very thankfull.
--
Paul