Thank you so much for the help. I had a little bumpy patch figuring out MarcEdit (I haven't had to really look at cataloging record structure in detail since library school). It finally worked when I added: 952$o Electronic Book and 942$c EBOOKS in addition to the fields Tajoli suggested. It could be that one of those was unnecessary, but since it finally looked right, I was disinclined to do more testing at that point. It's now almost exactly right. There's just one little thing left. Each book I added has an empty parentheses at the end of the Availability section of the display. I'm told this is the # of copies available. I looked at some of our records for ebooks that were migrated from Voyager, and also looked at some other Koha libraries that had ebooks, but I was unable to figure out what field controlled the contents of those parenthesis. Either the parenthesis should have the numeral 1 in them, or they shouldn't appear at all for e-book records. So can someone either tell me what MARC field/subfield controls the contents of those parenthesis, or else how to suppress the parentheses entirely when displaying ebooks in search results. Example of search results with empty parentheses: <http://man.waldo.kohalibrary.com/cgi-bin/koha/opac-search.pl?q=gale+virtual> or <http://bit.ly/5i7itX> [If you send your reply to the list, please cc: <stacy.pober@manhattan.edu> as I am on digest.] Advance thanks, Stacy On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 5:27 AM, tajoli <tajoli@cilea.it> wrote:
Dear Stacy,
On Tue, 8 Dec 2009 04:51:42 -0500, Stacy Pober <stacy.pober@manhattan.edu> wrote:
Is thers some shortcut to change all of an incoming batch of MARC-21 records to have the same holdings information? If so, could someone here kindly guide me through it?
yes, it possible. You need to manipolate your vendor file and insert, for every record a tag 952. The structure of 952 id http://wiki.koha.org/doku.php?id=en:documentation:marc21holdings_holdings_da...
Koha Item Type: Electronic book -> 952$y Collection code: Ebooks -> 952$8 Shelving Location: EBOOKS -> 952$c
Before uploading the MARC file for the first 200+ records, I used a text editor that could handle large files and prepended our EZproxy string onto the book's URL using a macro. That went smoothly. If there is no shortcut or tool in Koha for changing holdings on a large batch of records at once, is there some workaround using an external tool that would let me edit the information into the records before uploading them?
If you need to insert the exact same value in every 952, you can use a text editor. You can use also MarcEdit, and advanced MARC editor. To more advanced manipulation you need to write a specific script.
Attention that the structure of 952 that I write you is the default structure of Koha 3.0.x/3.1.x LEK could be different.
And if anyone can tell me how to add an 099 field to an item that isn't imported with one, I'd be most grateful to learn that. We are using 3.01.00.037 with LibLime Enterprise Koha build: 4.0100000.
You need to setup the field 099 as you lke in you cataloguing framework. But I don't know if LEK allows you to do it. In Koha: Home › Administration › MARC Frameworks > (select the framework and read the help). http://koha.org/documentation/manual/3.0/administration/catalog-administrati...
And yes, I do know LEK isn't real open source Koha, but there isn't a LEK user's list which I can join. The support list LibLime set up for bug reports has booted me and some other subscribers off because, I was told, they wanted to limit participation on that list as there was getting to be to much traffic.
I think is quite strange, you have paid to have support to LibLime.
Bye
-- Stacy Pober Information Alchemist Manhattan College Library Riverdale, NY 10471 stacy.pober@manhattan.edu