Hello, I am working on moving from a PC based library program, Concourse, to Koha. Koha installation was straight forward and the system is working. When I import my marc records I run into some trouble. My records get imported but my item types don't show and everything is listed in Koha as having zero items. The item types seem to be stored outside the marc record in Concourse so I broke my marc export out into separate files for each type of item. I think I see how to programatically set the item type during import to Koha. My real struggle is getting the items to show up as items in Koha and not just biblios. I'm a perl programmer and not a librarian so I don't quite get it. It looks again like Concourse and Koha use marc differently. What Koha maps to 952 tags seems to be listed under 852 tags in what Concourse exports. What I am looking for is a hint about how to adjust things so Koha will believe I have one of each of the items I am importing records for. As an example I have a two record marc file with an entry for a copy of Windows XP software and a copy of Adobe Acrobat that gives me the following when I use dumpmarc. (Our barcode is contained in 852p ) NUM : 0 NUMBER 1 => LDR 00355nam 2200133 a 4500 001 :::00005241$&:&@E 005 20050413115220.0 008 000 0 eng u 040 _ax 100 1 _aWindows XP SP2 245 10 _aWindows XP SP 2 250 _ax 260 _ax _bMicrosoft 852 1 _aMain Library _p00005241 _x{BookSysInc::00005241::QB@ ::BookSysInc} _9$ 0.00 NUMBER 2 => LDR 00305nam 2200109 a 4500 001 :::00005242$&:&@E 005 20050413151137.0 008 000 0 eng u 100 1 _aAdobe 245 10 _aAdobe Acrobat 5.0 260 _bAdobe 852 1 _aMain Library _p00005242 _x{BookSysInc::00005242::QB@ ::BookSysInc} _9$ 0.00 ================== Now, when I run the bulkmarcimport script in verbose mode I get this deleting biblios CHAR : MARC21 1 ==>LDR 001 :::00005241$&:&@E 005 20050413115220.0 008 000 0 eng u 040 _ax 100 1 _aWindows XP SP2 245 10 _aWindows XP SP 2 250 _ax 260 _ax _bMicrosoft 852 1 _aMain Library _p00005241 _x{BookSysInc::00005241::QB@ ::BookSysInc} _9$ 0.00 at /usr/local/koha/intranet/scripts/misc/migration_tools/bulkmarcimport.pl line 118. 1 : 0 items found ADDED biblio NB 16625 in DB 2 ==>LDR 001 :::00005242$&:&@E 005 20050413151137.0 008 000 0 eng u 100 1 _aAdobe 245 10 _aAdobe Acrobat 5.0 260 _bAdobe 852 1 _aMain Library _p00005242 _x{BookSysInc::00005242::QB@ ::BookSysInc} _9$ 0.00 at /usr/local/koha/intranet/scripts/misc/migration_tools/bulkmarcimport.pl line 118. 2 : 0 items found ADDED biblio NB 16626 in DB 2 MARC record done in 0.0708580017089844 seconds How do I explain to Koha that we want an item recognized for each of the imported records? By hand I can edit the item and enter the barcode and voila' I have an item that is requestable. I think that means my marc - koha mapping is at least close to being right. So is the answer to my problem in modifying the marc records import or is this something I can fix somewhere in one of the mapping tables? Thanks, Steve Blass sblass@asu.edu _______________________________________________ Koha mailing list Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha