8. Annexes

8.1 Memory Aid: The main Koha tables

The complete Koha schema for each version are available on the Koha community website: https://schema.kohacommunity.org/

8.1.1 Patrons/Circulation

  • ‘borrowers’ → Patrons

  • ‘issues’ → current loans

  • ‘old_issues’ and ‘statistics’ → history of loans

  • ‘reserves’ → reservations

  • ‘old_reserves’ → reservations history

8.1.2 Catalog

Authorities:

  • ‘auth_header’ → authorities

    • column: ‘authtypecode’ [CO, NP, SNC, etc.] ; see details of the settings on Koha Administration > Authority types

Bibliographic records:

warning! Bibliographic data are divided in 3 different tables

  • ‘biblio’ → MARC fields selection → ; see details of the settings on Koha Administration > Koha links => MARC

  • ‘biblioitems’ → selection of MARC fields ; see details of the settings on Koha Administration > Koha links => MARC

  • ‘biblio_metadata’ → all MARC fields stored in MARCXML (‘ → metadata’ column corresponds to the bibliographic record)

  • ‘deletedbiblio’ → list of deleted records

  • ‘deletedbiblioitems’ → list of deleted records

  • ‘deletedbiblio_metadata’ → list of deleted records

Items:

  • ‘items’ → list of items, see details of the settings on Koha Administration > Koha links=> MARC

  • ‘deleteditems’ → list of deleted items

8.1.3 Serials

  • ‘subscription’ → list of subscription

  • ‘serial’ → list of issues

  • ‘serialitems’ → list of items when receiving an issue create an item

8.1.4 Code labels

  • ‘branches’ → sites (for the branches name)

  • ‘itemtypes’ → loan types (for the name of the loan type)

  • ‘categories’ → member categories (for the name of the member category)

  • ‘authorised_values’ → authorised values lists (for the name of the locations, traps, collections, etc.)

8.2 Classes for Themes

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