speeding things up--barcoding our collection
At long last my library is starting to barcode our collection. A little background: Most of the catalog already consists of marc records in the state union catalog. The Dept. of Libraries has kindly loaded these records on a disk and sent them off to be loaded into Koha. Our collection is not barcoded (we are still a manual circulation library) and our task is to stick a barcode in every book and link that barcode to the record. We will also be tossing records that don't match any physical objects and adding records for items that need one. The problem: I'm trying to think of a way to avoid having to do a search to bring up each record. We'll be adding the majority of the records in shelf-list order and it would save a lot of time to be able to work in a table in the same order. Scan in the barcode, add the call number info, take care of a couple of other details, save the record. Has anyone else faced this problem? What solutions have you found? Thanks, Deborah Warren Public Library Warren, VT -- http://insidevaccines.com/wordpress/
Deborah, You could create a spreadsheet file with the bar code and other item details, and import such a file into Koha. More specifically: 1. Import the catalog records into koha 2. Create spreadsheet with ISBN/ISSN in one column and bar code and other item details in other columns. 3. Covert spreadsheet file into MARC using Marc edit tool 4. Use GUI import tool to get the item records into Koha. The import tool will match the item records in your file to the catalog records in the Koha database based on the ISBN or ISSN number. Note: hopefully you have the ISBN/ISSN no. for most records. For other you could add items manually via the GUI. Rgds, Savitra Sirohi Nucsoft OSS labs www.osslabs.biz On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 3:14 AM, <doybia@gmavt.net> wrote:
At long last my library is starting to barcode our collection.
A little background: Most of the catalog already consists of marc records in the state union catalog. The Dept. of Libraries has kindly loaded these records on a disk and sent them off to be loaded into Koha.
Our collection is not barcoded (we are still a manual circulation library) and our task is to stick a barcode in every book and link that barcode to the record. We will also be tossing records that don't match any physical objects and adding records for items that need one.
The problem: I'm trying to think of a way to avoid having to do a search to bring up each record. We'll be adding the majority of the records in shelf-list order and it would save a lot of time to be able to work in a table in the same order. Scan in the barcode, add the call number info, take care of a couple of other details, save the record.
Has anyone else faced this problem? What solutions have you found?
Thanks, Deborah Warren Public Library Warren, VT
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When we started with Koha we had a somewhat similar situation; we did have all items in csv format, but no barcodes whatsoever. We entered barcodes either directly in the database or through the csv file (Can't remember exactly, it has been a while). We printed all barcodes (about 6000) with kbarcode (kbarcode.net) because it can do all kinds of barcodes in great quantities. kbarcode can read from the database, which is a great thing, you can link other numbers to the barcode, or print spine labels from the database. hope this little bit helps. Marty --- On Tue, 2/3/09, doybia@gmavt.net <doybia@gmavt.net> wrote:
From: doybia@gmavt.net <doybia@gmavt.net> Subject: [Koha] speeding things up--barcoding our collection To: koha@lists.katipo.co.nz Date: Tuesday, February 3, 2009, 4:44 PM At long last my library is starting to barcode our collection.
A little background: Most of the catalog already consists of marc records in the state union catalog. The Dept. of Libraries has kindly loaded these records on a disk and sent them off to be loaded into Koha.
Our collection is not barcoded (we are still a manual circulation library) and our task is to stick a barcode in every book and link that barcode to the record. We will also be tossing records that don't match any physical objects and adding records for items that need one.
The problem: I'm trying to think of a way to avoid having to do a search to bring up each record. We'll be adding the majority of the records in shelf-list order and it would save a lot of time to be able to work in a table in the same order. Scan in the barcode, add the call number info, take care of a couple of other details, save the record.
Has anyone else faced this problem? What solutions have you found?
Thanks, Deborah Warren Public Library Warren, VT
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Couple of suggestions: 1 - if you are using a support company - getting the "biblios" numbers from the Koha system and seeing if they can link the barcode based on Biblio's number would be helpful from your CSV file... 2 - If you are using 3.0 - again with the biblios number as the match you would have to build your csv/excel file into a MARC file - but using the 999? where biblios number is stored I believe - import item information in batch(need testing to make sure you get all the fields) 3 - use a macro key as you type in the information to Koha so that all you have to do is enter certain pieces. I've built a macro using something from a previous life(jtautoentry - by Jim Taylor - Free...) http://jtdata.com/ - I've built a script that fills in most of the fields, and then "pauses" for a stated amount of time before it goes to the next field. It works as long as you know what you are doing and typing fairly regularly... Hope that helps... 4 - Send your shelf list in and get barcodes printed with information on each record etc... Several companies do that, but then you still have to match the barcode to the right book - and maybe doesn't solve your situation getting the data into Koha... Good luck! David Schuster dschust1@gmail.com doybia wrote:
At long last my library is starting to barcode our collection.
A little background: Most of the catalog already consists of marc records in the state union catalog. The Dept. of Libraries has kindly loaded these records on a disk and sent them off to be loaded into Koha.
Our collection is not barcoded (we are still a manual circulation library) and our task is to stick a barcode in every book and link that barcode to the record. We will also be tossing records that don't match any physical objects and adding records for items that need one.
The problem: I'm trying to think of a way to avoid having to do a search to bring up each record. We'll be adding the majority of the records in shelf-list order and it would save a lot of time to be able to work in a table in the same order. Scan in the barcode, add the call number info, take care of a couple of other details, save the record.
Has anyone else faced this problem? What solutions have you found?
Thanks, Deborah Warren Public Library Warren, VT
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