Advice on barcode replacement/central catalog
5 buildings with each their own library. 1 is using Koha now, the rest are being migrated this summer. We are going with a central catalog. Barcodes are not currently unique across the libraries, so we are generating new barcodes and replacing every barcode on every item this summer. My question revolves around bringing these “new” libraries into our existing Koha system. If I import the current material set from one of the new libraries, how difficult is the process to batch-update the barcodes from an external data soure? We have a separate program that will be used to scan in the current material barcode, parse and process it, then spit out a new, library-specific barcode. This process will have the biblio and original barcode plus new barcode that we can then put into a comma separated file to “batch update” Koha, but we’ve not tried to do that. Is that possible? Biblio number - is that internal and generated by Koha or is that something that would import from the original Material database (I don’t recall)? Is it better to process the barcodes in the material file before importing them into Koha, so that we would not be importing, then batch-changing within Koha? All thoughts much appreciated. -- Regards, Jeramey Valley Network Manager, Bullock Creek Schools valleyj@bcreek.org
Greetings, If you are merely importing MARC records, then why not batch update them in MARC Edit first, before importing into Koha? http://bywatersolutions.com/2012/01/18/using-marcedit-to-add-koha-items/ I'm not sure what functionality in MARC Edit would pre-append something to the barcode like SITEA, SITEB, SITEC, etc., but I'm pretty sure that functionality exists. GPML, Mark Tompsett
I think you could use the same prepending process shown here with call number prefixes: http://manual.koha-community.org/3.18/en/marcedit.html#marceditprefix Biblionumber is internal; you don't have to provide it. At a gut-feeling level, I would strongly support changing barcodes before you import. --Katelyn. Katelyn Browne High School Librarian & Technology Teacher Capital City Public Charter School 100 Peabody Street NW Washington, DC 20011 (202) 387-0309 x1745 kbrowne@ccpcs.org http://www.ccpcs.org/library/ On Tue, Jun 2, 2015 at 1:11 PM, Mark Tompsett <mtompset@hotmail.com> wrote:
Greetings,
If you are merely importing MARC records, then why not batch update them in MARC Edit first, before importing into Koha? http://bywatersolutions.com/2012/01/18/using-marcedit-to-add-koha-items/
I'm not sure what functionality in MARC Edit would pre-append something to the barcode like SITEA, SITEB, SITEC, etc., but I'm pretty sure that functionality exists.
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While I agree that it is easier to update barcodes before hand, we had some libraries do this after the fact so I put together a very simple Koha plugin to allow you to scan an item's barcode, then scan a new barcode and have it changed in the system. You can get it here if it seems useful: http://wikisend.com/download/347282/upbarc.kpz On Tue, Jun 2, 2015 at 1:51 PM, Katelyn Browne <kbrowne@ccpcs.org> wrote:
I think you could use the same prepending process shown here with call number prefixes: http://manual.koha-community.org/3.18/en/marcedit.html#marceditprefix
Biblionumber is internal; you don't have to provide it.
At a gut-feeling level, I would strongly support changing barcodes before you import.
--Katelyn.
Katelyn Browne High School Librarian & Technology Teacher Capital City Public Charter School 100 Peabody Street NW Washington, DC 20011 (202) 387-0309 x1745 kbrowne@ccpcs.org http://www.ccpcs.org/library/
On Tue, Jun 2, 2015 at 1:11 PM, Mark Tompsett <mtompset@hotmail.com> wrote:
Greetings,
If you are merely importing MARC records, then why not batch update them in MARC Edit first, before importing into Koha? http://bywatersolutions.com/2012/01/18/using-marcedit-to-add-koha-items/
I'm not sure what functionality in MARC Edit would pre-append something to the barcode like SITEA, SITEB, SITEC, etc., but I'm pretty sure that functionality exists.
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Nick you should share that here: http://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Koha_plugins until we have a better place to share plugins. Nicole On Tue, Jun 2, 2015 at 1:39 PM, Nick Clemens <nick@quecheelibrary.org> wrote:
While I agree that it is easier to update barcodes before hand, we had some libraries do this after the fact so I put together a very simple Koha plugin to allow you to scan an item's barcode, then scan a new barcode and have it changed in the system.
You can get it here if it seems useful: http://wikisend.com/download/347282/upbarc.kpz
On Tue, Jun 2, 2015 at 1:51 PM, Katelyn Browne <kbrowne@ccpcs.org> wrote:
I think you could use the same prepending process shown here with call number prefixes: http://manual.koha-community.org/3.18/en/marcedit.html#marceditprefix
Biblionumber is internal; you don't have to provide it.
At a gut-feeling level, I would strongly support changing barcodes before you import.
--Katelyn.
Katelyn Browne High School Librarian & Technology Teacher Capital City Public Charter School 100 Peabody Street NW Washington, DC 20011 (202) 387-0309 x1745 kbrowne@ccpcs.org http://www.ccpcs.org/library/
On Tue, Jun 2, 2015 at 1:11 PM, Mark Tompsett <mtompset@hotmail.com> wrote:
Greetings,
If you are merely importing MARC records, then why not batch update them in MARC Edit first, before importing into Koha? http://bywatersolutions.com/2012/01/18/using-marcedit-to-add-koha-items/
I'm not sure what functionality in MARC Edit would pre-append something to the barcode like SITEA, SITEB, SITEC, etc., but I'm pretty sure that functionality exists.
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