Good morning, This is my first post although I've been a lurker for several months and am running Koha as my circulation system (set up by Liblime). I played a bit with the serials portion of the program, but wasn't able to get too far. I am curious as to how libraries, particularly public ones are handling the adding and circulation of magazines. In my old system, I was able to use a generic barcode to check out issues of the same periodical (Newsweek, Time, People, etc.) and simply used the issue date in checkout. I'd like to keep the process as simple as possible since I'm a one pony outfit. Any and all suggestions/experiences gratefully welcomd. Thank you. John R. Clark, M.ED, MLIS-Librarian, Hartland, Maine "Like I said, God, screw you. Deanilu watched herself send the razor deep into her arm, bringing forth a bright ruby stream of blood"-from God, the Universe and the 6-fingered boy, a short story in "Hardscrabble Kids: Surreal stories of Maine teens."
John R. Clark <berek@...> writes:
Good morning, This is my first post although I've been a lurker for several months and am running Koha as my circulation system (set up by Liblime). I played a bit with the serials portion of the program, but wasn't able to get too far. I am curious as to how libraries, particularly public ones are handling the adding and circulation of magazines. In my old system, I was able to use a generic barcode to check out issues of the same periodical (Newsweek, Time, People, etc.) and simply used the issue date in checkout. I'd like to keep the process as simple as possible since I'm a one pony outfit. Any and all suggestions/experiences gratefully welcomd. Thank you.
John R. Clark, M.ED, MLIS-Librarian, Hartland, Maine
John, It may be possible to do that. We actually barcode them (at Stow-Munroe) and it does not take too much time for the cataloging, although we would like to use the serials module, we hope to get to that later this year or early next year, as serials looks much improved. If the circ module goes by Item-number and the barcode is for a BIB match, then it should be possible. -Darrell Ulm
Hi John, Great to have you on-list :-) ----- "John R. Clark" <berek@tds.net> wrote:
Good morning, This is my first post although I've been a lurker for several months and am running Koha as my circulation system (set up by Liblime). I played a bit with the serials portion of the program, but wasn't able to get too far. I am curious as to how libraries, particularly public ones are handling the adding and circulation of magazines. In my old system, I was able to use a generic barcode to check out issues of the same periodical (Newsweek, Time, People, etc.) and simply used the issue date in checkout. I'd like to keep the process as simple as possible since I'm a one pony outfit. Any and all suggestions/experiences gratefully welcomd. We need to improve on the documentation of the serials module, for sure. There is a Guide written up here:
http://kohadocs.org/corpSerials/corpSerials.html That may be of some help. Note that the screenshots are for the hlt templates, not npl (which I believe you're using), but the workflow should be much the same. There are also some system preferences that need to be set up ahead of time for serials to work properly, but I'm not sure if those have been documented thusfar ... Ryan, thoughts on that? Cheers, -- Joshua Ferraro SUPPORT FOR OPEN-SOURCE SOFTWARE President, Technology migration, training, maintenance, support LibLime Featuring Koha Open-Source ILS jmf@liblime.com |Full Demos at http://liblime.com/koha |1(888)KohaILS
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