Dear Koha community, My name is Susanna Bartsch, one-person librarian at Berlin International University of Applied Sciences. Im migrating to Koha, planning to go into production with an own database from mid-September on. For the time being, I have been using a provisional Koha instance kindly provided by Michael Kühn last June to learn to use Koha. I guess Ill be writing rather often to this list in the next months, asking for your expertise. My questions will surely be of a very basic nature, for which I apologize in advance. The first part of my first question is about automatic generation of strings with incremental numbers, specifically: * in bibliographic records: Control Number (MARC field 001); * in item records: Inventory Number (field i). I have been closely reading the Koha 18.05 manual and this lists archive, and I found many, many central and helpful features Im successfully experimenting with. But I dont seem able to find any conclusive information about the automatic generation of Control Number and Inventory Number. The second part of my question is: Is it possible and advisable to automatically have the following correspondences: * Control Number (MARC field 001) = Koha Record Number, but preceded by some zeros, e.g. Koha Record Number 1 --> Control Number 0000001; * Inventory Number (field i) = Barcode (field p), e.g. 2018/0001? Perhaps important: * Im probably not migrating the old Control Numbers. * My predecessor didnt record Inventory Numbers. Many thanks in advance for any help! Kindly, Susanna -- Susanna Bartsch, MA Head of Library <mailto:bartsch@bauinternational-berlin.de> bartsch@bauinternational-berlin.de <mailto:library@bauinternational-berlin.de> library@bauinternational-berlin.de Phone +49 (30) 8105808-15 Berlin International University of Applied Sciences (former BAU International Berlin University of Applied Sciences) Heinrich-Heine-Str. 15 10179 Berlin, Germany New address from September 2018: Salzufer 6 10587 Berlin, Germany <https://www.bauinternational-berlin.de/en/university/academic-units/library
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