[Koha] Help-Dewey displays as 99.999 for most entries

[Olaf Clausen]

  Hello,
   
  I'm fairly new to Koha having tried it out several years ago. At that time we had a student enter our books into Koha 1.2.3. For various reasons we had to shelve the project but we were able to enter about 3000 books into the system.
  I am once again trying to get Koha working for our small high school and have installed Koha 2.2.4 on a Fedora Core 4 box and imported the old database from 1.2.3. All the items show up fine but the dewey field in searches is the same for almost all books (2600 of them report 99.9999) and the remainder report another dewey number. I know nothing about MARC and am struggling to find out were the dewey information can be changed. In reading the user guides and posts, it seems to me that MARC tag 082a is supposed to hold this data but only tag 852k is editable and it doesn't seem to allow anything but two letters to be entered. Furthermore, search results show a Dewey field but no location/call number field (ie 852)--so what does 852 do anyway?
  Simpler is better for our little library so straight Dewey would work better for us. Can anyone help me figure out how to access and change the Dewey field for each item?
   
  Thanks,
   
  Olaf Clausen
  Fountainview Academy

		
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