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

[Steven F.Baljkas]

Thursday, September 14, 2006     23:32 CDT

Hi, Aren,

I think I am understanding what Stephen H. is saying, but I am not 100% on what your current MARC tag structure is.

I have time to take a look at this if you like. Could you provide 1-2 tagged MARC examples of records with the 852, 952, etc., either on listserv or off?

Stephen could confirm, but my understanding is that each MARC record could hold more than one 952, -- which is where Koha holds Item Information, right? --, so then the problem would be moving the data from wherever your current structure holds that info to where Koha expects it? I think MARCEdit should be able to do that.

Anyway, I'm willing to give it a look-see. Get back to me if you want.

Cheers,
Steven F. Baljkas
library tech at large
Koha neophyte
Winnipeg, MB, Canada

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From: "Aren Olson" <reacocard at gmail.com>
Date: 2006/09/13 Wed PM 09:36:46 CDT
To: koha at lists.katipo.co.nz
Subject: Fwd: [Koha] MARC tag structure problem,
	Dewey problems & Possible to create items when importing MARC?

On 9/13/06, Stephen Hedges <st.hedges at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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.


Then how am I to make it work? There is data on both tags. If I use this
setup for import, then change it later, would that work?

[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.plscript.
>
> Stephen
>

That's what I used. the records import fine, but no items are created.


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