Warning, the following is theoretical, we haven't actually done it yet. We plan on taking a completely different approach, due to the historic way our data has been organized. We have a database with records for each periodical title containing a list of the issues we hold (or more correctly, ranges, eg. vol. 1 no. 1, January 1911- vol. 4 no. 2 March 1914; vol. 6 no. 1 January 1916-). The individual articles have been catalogued in our main database (at what will become the biblio level in Koha) and will have a link to the host item (the periodical record, which will also be at the biblio level) in the 773 field. We will not have a link from the host item to every subordinate item because this could exceed the number we are allowed to have in MARC. This would probably provide the functionality you would like - the ability to search for individual articles / authors / keywords. But you would have to split your article information out of your spreadsheet and into individual MARC records. Given the digital magic my IT wizard has been able to do, I think it's possible with a bit of clever programming. Of course the national libraries do not catalogue periodicals to this level, but specialist research collections like ours do. Elaine 2011/3/27 Joel Harbottle <Joel.Harbottle@hotmail.com.au>:
Hi Paul,
This problem isn’t going to help with what your asking, but this is how I manage the Serials in our Library.
1. I have a Bibliographic Record for the Serial Title. 2. I utilise the Serials Module functionality in Koha to manage the Subscription(s) and Acquisition/Receiving of issues of the Serial Titles. 3. I then attach a holding record to the Serial’s Bibliographic Record for the issue, and because we store a year’s worth of issues of a Serial Title in a pamphlet box, I also utilise what we call a ‘Serials Summary’ generic holding record which is attached to the bibliographic record and is updated every time a new holding record is created for a received serial issue.
I have attached to this email, in Microsoft Word (.doc) format, an example of how our Serial Bibliographic Record and Holdings Records appear in the Koha OPAC.
Paul, unfortunately, I can’t shed any light onto the type of functionality you are looking for in regards to abstracts, etc., but I thought I would share my method of dealing with Serials in my Library.
Kindest Regards, Joel
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