Serial numbering pattern for MMM dd, YYYY possible?
Hi serials control gurus, I'm trying to enter the subscription for a magazine - India Today. It is (1/week), published on every Monday. The issues are numbered as "MMM dd, YYYY" I'm trying to generate a numbering pattern for it and is failing miserably.. Is such a numbering even possible within the current serials framework of Koha? thanks in advance Indranil Das Gupta L2C2 Technologies Phone : +91-98300-20971 WWW : http://www.l2c2.co.in Blog : http://blog.l2c2.co.in IRC : indradg on irc://irc.freenode.net Twitter : indradg
Hi, Indranil-- We haven't had much luck with weekly pattern projection such as this--all our weekly serials have number-based volume and/or number "numbering," so we just project that numbering and then we manually add the date upon check-in. You might be able to use week numbering (based on there being 52 weeks a year) and then edit it upon check-in? E.g., have it project "12" for the issue expected in the 12th week of the year (Mar. 18, 2019) and then when it arrives have the staff change the "12" to "Mar. 18, 2019?" Kinda clunky, but it might work? I'd love to hear of a better solution, if one is out there! Cheerio! h2 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Heather Hernandez (she, her, hers) Technical Services Librarian San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park Research Center 2 Marina Blvd., Bldg. E, 3rd floor, San Francisco, CA 94123-1284 415-561-7032, heather_hernandez@nps.gov Library catalog: http://keys.bywatersolutions.com/
Hi Heather, Thanks! That's exactly what I did in the end. :-) Thanks again for confirming that I wasn't alone in that fix and that I route I finally took was a something even a seasoned Librarian would take (I'm from tech). FWIW I did put up a small video here - https://youtu.be/BTYzQ1NklcY Cheers Indranil On Thu 7 Mar, 2019, 11:07 PM Hernandez, Heather, <heather_hernandez@nps.gov> wrote:
Hi, Indranil--
We haven't had much luck with weekly pattern projection such as this--all our weekly serials have number-based volume and/or number "numbering," so we just project that numbering and then we manually add the date upon check-in.
You might be able to use week numbering (based on there being 52 weeks a year) and then edit it upon check-in? E.g., have it project "12" for the issue expected in the 12th week of the year (Mar. 18, 2019) and then when it arrives have the staff change the "12" to "Mar. 18, 2019?" Kinda clunky, but it might work?
I'd love to hear of a better solution, if one is out there!
Cheerio! h2 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Heather Hernandez (she, her, hers) Technical Services Librarian San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park Research Center 2 Marina Blvd., Bldg. E, 3rd floor, San Francisco, CA 94123-1284 415-561-7032, heather_hernandez@nps.gov Library catalog: http://keys.bywatersolutions.com/
Hi, Indranil-- Great video! And nice that we had the same idea! One thing that you probably already know about, that we've found very handy, is using the "Non-public note" field in the subscription records for information for the staff to use at check-in, since the information in that field displays on the "Receive" and "Edit" screens in Serials--information can be put in that field, e.g., "Please replace supplied "No. X" data with date transcribed from the issue when receiving in the format, e.g., "Mar. 04, 2019." Excelsior! h2 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Heather Hernandez (she, her, hers) Technical Services Librarian San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park Research Center 2 Marina Blvd., Bldg. E, 3rd floor, San Francisco, CA 94123-1284 415-561-7032, heather_hernandez@nps.gov Library catalog: http://keys.bywatersolutions.com
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