Haik, In this respect, Koha has 4 entities to keep track of: 1. The Biblio 2. Any Items attached to the Biblio 3. a Subscription attached to the Biblio 4. Serial issues for the Subscription (which can correspond to Items, if you wish) You can have multiple Subscriptions to a Biblio; this is where you set the frequency and location information. Issues are received (or not) as they come in (or not). Each Issue received can also come with a supplement. Issues have the option, at the Subscription level, to generate item records for themselves. I *believe* supplements can also generate their own items, but I have not tested that. Do you barcode your serials issues? Do the multiple parts to an issue get barcoded separately? -Ian On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 2:12 PM, Haik Zargaryan <haikzargaryan@yahoo.com>wrote:

Dear community,

We are currently testing 3.06.04 to automate our library. Everything is still all right with one exception. Our catalog contains a large number of serial publications. The problem is that we are not sure how its MARC record should look like. With book everything is clear; you have a bibliographic record and holdings/items.

Yet, journals and newspapers appear to be somehow tricky. We have decided to use koha's "Serials" module for this purpose. So, we create a bibliographic record, assign the pattern of publications and the system starts to generate items for each Issue. But the problem is that each issue has several items for itself, and since we use Items as Issues, there is no way to assign additional Items to Issues. This may sound a little bit confusing, but those who have used the tool will understand. Is there any solution to this problem?

Or, do you have any experience of creating Serial/Newspaper records? Can you share some useful examples?

Regards, Haik. _______________________________________________ Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha