We have successfully added items during the conversion to MARC. All the item specific information (barcod/ accession number, call number, etc.) has to be put into the appropriate subfield of 952 I found these pages very useful in constructing the 952 http://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Holdings_data_fields_(9xx) http://koha.org/documentation/manual/3.0/cataloging/item-fields-data-migrati... 2010/11/2 hubeimeiyu <hubeimeiyu@126.com>:

thank you for help, i really don't know how does it work, could you give me some example as you set it into your marc, i think i should add it into my excel file,and convert it into marc,then i won't add so many datas in it. do you think so?

FishMei China BeiJing 2010-11-02 ________________________________ ________________________________ 发件人: Nicole Engard <nengard@gmail.com> 发送时间: 2010-10-29 06:50 主 题: Re: [Koha] [koha]could we import items? 收件人: hubeimeiyu <hubeimeiyu@126.com> 抄 送: koha <koha@lists.katipo.co.nz>

You can import items. Your item data needs to be in the 952 field when you do the import and you can choose to just import items, not bibs. More info here: http://koha-community.org/documentation/3-2-manual/?ch=x5046 and here: http://koha-community.org/documentation/3-2-manual/?ch=x5094 and finally this http://koha-community.org/documentation/3-2-manual/?ch=a12076 helps you with the 952 field and its subfields.

Nicole

2010/10/28 hubeimeiyu <hubeimeiyu@126.com>:

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i have import records of all our library books,but i try to add items,it is so much work now, could we import items?we have 1000 books,if i add it myself ,it is really a big job.

best wishes~ Fish Mei

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