Koha Search Shortcuts

Koha Search Shortcuts


Koha Search Shortcuts




Sometimes it can be useful to go directly to catalogue records if you know an unique identifier such as the record number, item number or the barcode.


There is a special syntax in Koha that allows you to do that:


Bibliographic record number sn: (eg sn:12345)

Barcode                         bc: (eg bc:18293-1001)




This will bring you straight to biblionumber 1234



You can also use this syntax for index searches (equivalent to command-line searching)


This is a list of the most common shortcuts



Personal-name

pn

Corporate-name

cpn

Conference-name

cfn

Title

ti

Title-series

se

Title-uniform

ut

ISBN

nb

ISSN

ns

Local number

sn

Local-classification

lcn and callnum

Subject

su, su-to, su-geo, su-ut

Pubdate

yr,pubdate

Date-of-Acquisition

acqdate

Language

ln

Place-of-publication

pl

Abstract

ab

Notes

nt

Record-type

rtype, mc-rtype, mus

Author

au, aut

Subject-person-name

su-na

Any (keyword)

kw

Publisher

pb

Content-type

ctype

Koha-Auth-Number

an

Author-personal-bibliography

aub

Author-in-order

auo


 



Version History

Version

Date

Detail

Author

1.0

30/09/2022

Created document

Daphne Hoolahan









Retention Policy

Permanent

X








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