Currently, when you use the MARC21 008 plugin to edit field positions, the type of material is always set to BKS, regardless of the actual material type of the record. This means that you always have to change the material type in the fixed field editor to the appropriate value. It would be nice if the type of material were determined by the current leader value. The "material type" in this context is determined by the Leader/06 and Leader/07. The "input conventions" heading near the bottom of http://www.loc.gov/marc/bibliographic/bdleader.html contains a "dependencies" section that designates the appropriate material type for the 008 based on the Leader/06-07.
This is something that I've been thinking about lately as well. I think the following would be very possible. Dependencies Field 008/18-34 Configuration If Leader/06 = a and Leader/07 = a, c, d, or m: Books If Leader/06 = a and Leader/07 = b, i, or s: Continuing Resources If Leader/06 = t: Books If Leader/06 = c, d, i, or j: Music If Leader/06 = e, or f: Maps If Leader/06 = g, k, o, or r: Visual Materials If Leader/06 = m: Computer Files If Leader/06 = p: Mixed Materials Capitalization - Alphabetic codes are input as lowercase letters. I might actually look at this myself tomorrow or next week...
Mmm, duplicate of Bug 9093?
Yep, definitely a duplicate. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 9093 ***