Download MARCedit. http://people.oregonstate.edu/~reeset/marcedit/html/issues.html This first thing I would do is use MARCedit to tear apart the records from your old system and examine them closely. Match the 852 to the 952 fields. You will probably need to match up the sub fields as well. Here are some rough notes I kept on migrating from Koha 2.29 to 3.xx You may need to use much the same process to create the correct 952 field entries. (in this case I create a temporary 998 field and use it to rebuild the 952 field.) You could use the same process to copy the 852 fields to the correct 952 fields. ************************************************* Koha 2.29 export =952 \\$bPINE$d$kF HAR$p70268$r{dollar}12.89$t2$u269 =952 \\ $9 --- price $bPINE ---holding branch $d -- Date Acquired $kF HAR -- itemcallnumber $p70267 --- barcode $r -- replacementprice $t1 --- copy number $u268 --- URI $v -- dateacces $w -– replacementpricedate KOHA 3 EXPORT =952 \\$70$kF HAN$p70262$r{dollar}13.99$40$00$911$bPINE$yBOOK$10$u263$dPINE$t2 KOHA3 KOHA3 CODE action on KOHA229 $7—- 0 Not for loan -- $c-- F HAN Shelving location code --$k Copy to $o, rpl w/$c $p—- 74255 barcode --$p SAME $r—- 2010-8-7 Date last seen --$v COPY TO $s, rpl w/$r $4—- 0 Damaged status -- $0—- 0 Withdrawn status -- $9—- 12 Koha itemnumber (autogenerated) -- $b—- PINE branchcode --$b SAME $y—- BOOK Koha item type --BK (must match) $1—- 0 Lost status -- $u—- 4264 Uniform Resource Identifier --$u SAME $d—2007-8-17 Date acquired --$d DELETE $t—- 6 Copy number --$t SAME $o-- F HAN Koha Full call number -- $v–- cost replacement price --$r REPLACE WITH A $v COPY FIELD 952 to 998 SWAP FIELDS 998$k to 952$o ADD TO EXISTING FIELD SWAP FIELDS 998$v COPY TO 952$s ADD TO EXISTING FIELD Replace =952(.*)\$k =952$1$c =952(.*)\$r =952$1$v =952(.*)\$s =952$1$r EDIT subfield: Field 952 Subfield y Field data BK Replace with BK Check—add subfield if not present EDIT subfield: Field 952 Subfield a Field data PINE Replace with PINE Check—add subfield if not present EDIT subfield: Field 952 Subfield d Field data Remove text EDIT subfield: Field 952 Subfield v Field data Remove text SWAP FIELDS 998$r to 952$v ADD TO EXISTING FIELD DELETE field 998 ******************************************

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Ingrid Karklins<ingridrk@stedwards.edu> 10/25/2010 1:29 PM >>> Hello.

I'm the librarian at the Griffin School in Austin, Texas (a small a college preparatory high school with a focus on the arts). We recently successfully migrated our MARC21 records from Book Systems into Koha. We did *not* succeed in bringing individual *items*. Looking at the Book Systems MARC records, I see that the item barcode and call number are located in the 852 field. Is there are way to bring these into the Koha default 952 fields? Alternately, is there a way to batch create one item each for each of our bibliographic records? Thanks much for your suggestions in advance. Ingrid Karklins Griffin School Librarian ingrid@griffinschool.org _______________________________________________ Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha