Paul and Andres (I think) wrote:
The other idea is Build a full record with as many 035 tags as copies of that book we have. Again bulkmarcimport should take into account this and build the biblio and biblioitems needed.
We want to know what is the proper way to build our records in order to get this reality fully represented in the koha database.
Yes, that's the proper way if you speak of biblio & items. in this case, the 035 subfields MUST be mapped to item tab (10) and don't map a 035 subfield in another tab (except for ignore).
I am confused. In other threads it has been recommended to put copies and other holdings information in 852 tags or to create 952 user tags. The 035 tag is for SYSTEM CONTROL NUMBER. Is this a better alternative? Do you then create your own (non-MARC) subfields? I am especially interested because I am trying to load our Koha DB and have used 952 tags for holding information. Now I show duplicate entries for all item information in the intranet pages but the items show up correctly in the opac screens. Looking at the db, the correct items entries are present for each biblio. The problem seems to be in the marc_subfield_table table when there are multiple tag entries for the 952 tags where there should be only one. Also, I get errors when I run "rebuildnommarc.pl" complaining of null data in the tagorder field. Your comments would be appreciated. Dana