When we started with Koha we had a somewhat similar situation; we did have all items in csv format, but no barcodes whatsoever. We entered barcodes either directly in the database or through the csv file (Can't remember exactly, it has been a while). We printed all barcodes (about 6000) with kbarcode (kbarcode.net) because it can do all kinds of barcodes in great quantities. kbarcode can read from the database, which is a great thing, you can link other numbers to the barcode, or print spine labels from the database. hope this little bit helps. Marty --- On Tue, 2/3/09, doybia@gmavt.net <doybia@gmavt.net> wrote:
From: doybia@gmavt.net <doybia@gmavt.net> Subject: [Koha] speeding things up--barcoding our collection To: koha@lists.katipo.co.nz Date: Tuesday, February 3, 2009, 4:44 PM At long last my library is starting to barcode our collection.
A little background: Most of the catalog already consists of marc records in the state union catalog. The Dept. of Libraries has kindly loaded these records on a disk and sent them off to be loaded into Koha.
Our collection is not barcoded (we are still a manual circulation library) and our task is to stick a barcode in every book and link that barcode to the record. We will also be tossing records that don't match any physical objects and adding records for items that need one.
The problem: I'm trying to think of a way to avoid having to do a search to bring up each record. We'll be adding the majority of the records in shelf-list order and it would save a lot of time to be able to work in a table in the same order. Scan in the barcode, add the call number info, take care of a couple of other details, save the record.
Has anyone else faced this problem? What solutions have you found?
Thanks, Deborah Warren Public Library Warren, VT
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