[Koha] MARC tag structure problem, Dewey problems & Possible to create items when importing MARC?

[Stephen Hedges]

On 9/11/06, Aren Olson <reacocard at gmail.com> wrote:
> I am helping a public library switch to koha, and have a few problems that
> have come up while importing the old data.
>
> First, on the "MARC Check" page, It says
>
>  item fieldsALL items fields MUST :
>
> be mapped to the same tag,
> and they must all be in the 10 (items) tab
>
> Item tagThere is more than 1 MARC tag related to items tab (10) : 852,952,
> This is correct, the previous ILS's MARC setup puts some item data on each
> tag. Is it safe to leave it like this?

No, Koha will not work until you get the MARC check to return no errors.

[snip...]

> Thirdly, is there any way to have koha automatically create items from a
> MARC import? The records import, but I have to manually create an item for
> each record before I can use it. This is impractical, since there are
> thousands of records.

I believe the best way to do this is still to use the bulkmarcimport.pl script.

Stephen