Saturday, August 9, 2008 20:30 CDT Hi, Kate, Just as a brief addendum to Joshua's proper answer, there is another work-around possible if you and your team aren't up to the Perl and Javascript'ing that the experts would use: you could use a free tool like MARCEdit which has rather simple 'script' functions to import your records, construct barcode numbers, and then re-export them. The Help info with the program is actually nicely complete, but just briefly now, IIRC, (and assuming that you can discriminate easily between the FICT records and ones with other kinds of call numbers), you should be able to read and copy info from a subfield like $100a, truncate (to 3 or 4), and append that to the field of your choosing for call number. I hope that quick explanation makes some sense and gives you another option. In the meanwhile, welcome to the Koha community and good luck with your library going live! Cheers, Steven F. Baljkas library technician at large Koha neophyte Winnipeg, MB, Canada ============================================================ From: "Joshua Ferraro" <jmf@liblime.com> Date: 2008/08/09 Sat PM 12:59:24 CDT To: "Kate Blair Elliott" <kate.bookgirl@gmail.com> CC: koha@lists.katipo.co.nz Subject: Re: [Koha] Call numbers On Sat, Aug 9, 2008 at 1:48 PM, Kate Blair Elliott <kate.bookgirl@gmail.com> wrote:
This might be an obvious question, but we are in the process of installing Koha 3.0 but won't be going live with it for several months now. We are small library and still have to automate our system and scan, create marc records, and barcode all of our books.
Since these books are all already labeled I was hoping there was a way that Koha could be set to automatically generate call numbers based on our specifications (for example FICT for fiction plus the first 3 letters of the authors last name).
Is there a way to do this or do we have to manually go in and change each record to reflect how we want to call number to be displayed. You could create a plugin to do this based on something like your itemtype or something, and link it to the itemcallnumber field. This would require a bit of Perl and JavaScript coding, but it's pretty low barrier to entry.
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