Bug 34687

Summary: Displaying multiple 264 to show publication history
Product: Koha Reporter: Helen Jones <h.jones>
Component: MARC Bibliographic data supportAssignee: Bugs List <koha-bugs>
Status: NEW --- QA Contact: Testopia <testopia>
Severity: enhancement    
Priority: P5 - low    
Version: 21.11   
Hardware: PC   
OS: Windows   
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Description Helen Jones 2023-09-01 10:04:39 UTC
Display all 264 regardless of value of first indicator 

The first indicators for 264 are currently defined (MARC21 website) as:
# - Not applicable/No information provided/Earliest
2 - Intervening
3 - Current/Latest

In Koha (according to a patch from Bug 14734), first indicator = 3 trumps all other options and actually suppresses all other 264, which, if you are using the indicators properly, removes most of the publication history. This is very unhelpful, particularly in journals records.

If I want to have all the previous publication history displayed, then I need to code the first indicator of the most recent publisher as something other than 3 (which is technically wrong) so that I don't loose the previous publication info. This is really counter-intuitive. The indicators should be used for their intended purpose rather than as a suppression tool.

Could this patch be reversed so that the indicators function to display the complete publication history?