Hi, We are using Koha in a small school now. One of my last hurdles is adding new books to Koha. We were able to add about half of the new books we have through Z39 searches but the remaining books (about 100) aren't being found. In trying to add these by hand I am running into a problem in that I can't add the authors name to the catalog entry for a book. That field is showing as locked. I haven't been able to figure out how to change that. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks, Shawn
On 9 March 2011 14:38, Fogg, Shawn (DPH) <Shawn.Fogg@state.ma.us> wrote:
Hi,
We are using Koha in a small school now. One of my last hurdles is adding new books to Koha. We were able to add about half of the new books we have through Z39 searches but the remaining books (about 100) aren't being found.
In trying to add these by hand I am running into a problem in that I can't add the authors name to the catalog entry for a book. That field is showing as locked. I haven't been able to figure out how to change that.
Hi! Sounds like your problem is related to this: http://koha-community.org/documentation/faq/cataloging/#7 Best regards, Magnus Enger libriotech.no
Just to elaborate, navigate to Administration/System Preferences/Authorities and set 'BiblioAddsAuthorities' to 'On'. I found that it was also helpful (especially for a school library) to create a custom bibliographic framework containing only the fields we needed. It made manual cataloguing significantly easier for school librarians who might not have much experience with MARC format cataloguing. Hope that helps! Emrys ________________________________ From: koha-bounces@lists.katipo.co.nz on behalf of Magnus Enger Sent: Wed 09/03/2011 14:07 To: Koha koha Subject: Re: [Koha] Add record author field locked? On 9 March 2011 14:38, Fogg, Shawn (DPH) <Shawn.Fogg@state.ma.us> wrote:
Hi,
We are using Koha in a small school now. One of my last hurdles is adding new books to Koha. We were able to add about half of the new books we have through Z39 searches but the remaining books (about 100) aren't being found.
In trying to add these by hand I am running into a problem in that I can't add the authors name to the catalog entry for a book. That field is showing as locked. I haven't been able to figure out how to change that.
Hi! Sounds like your problem is related to this: http://koha-community.org/documentation/faq/cataloging/#7 Best regards, Magnus Enger libriotech.no _______________________________________________ Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org <http://koha-community.org/> Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha
Hi, Thanks for the information, that looks like it was the problem. Good idea about the custom framework. I assume that would be in Koha->Administration->MARC Frameworks? What fields are required by Koha? I think for these books the librarian is really just looking for Title, Author, ISBN, Call Number and Barcode. Thanks, Shawn ----------------- Just to elaborate, navigate to Administration/System Preferences/Authorities and set 'BiblioAddsAuthorities' to 'On'. I found that it was also helpful (especially for a school library) to create a custom bibliographic framework containing only the fields we needed. It made manual cataloguing significantly easier for school librarians who might not have much experience with MARC format cataloguing. Hope that helps! Emrys
I've attached a sqldump of data from the relevant rows of the marc_subfield_structure, marc_tag_structure and biblio_framework tables. This framework (which I called 'BRF') is one I created for our school librarians to use for manual cataloguing. All of the MARC fields should be displayed in one tab. All you need to do is load it into your DB. This should save you some effort, as setting up a custom framework is a bit clunky and time-consuming. HOWEVER, this framework was created under Koha 3.00.04.019. I have no idea if any of these table structures have changed in more recent versions. I suppose mysql might shout at you if there is a problem during loading. Emrys ________________________________ From: koha-bounces@lists.katipo.co.nz on behalf of Fogg, Shawn (DPH) Sent: Wed 09/03/2011 15:50 To: Koha koha Subject: Re: [Koha] Add record author field locked? Hi, Thanks for the information, that looks like it was the problem. Good idea about the custom framework. I assume that would be in Koha->Administration->MARC Frameworks? What fields are required by Koha? I think for these books the librarian is really just looking for Title, Author, ISBN, Call Number and Barcode. Thanks, Shawn ----------------- Just to elaborate, navigate to Administration/System Preferences/Authorities and set 'BiblioAddsAuthorities' to 'On'. I found that it was also helpful (especially for a school library) to create a custom bibliographic framework containing only the fields we needed. It made manual cataloguing significantly easier for school librarians who might not have much experience with MARC format cataloguing. Hope that helps! Emrys _______________________________________________ Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org <http://koha-community.org/> Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha
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