[Koha] Call numbers

[S/O Baljkas]

Saturday, August 9, 2008      20:30 CDT

Hi, Kate,

Just as a brief addendum to Joshua's proper answer, there is another work-around possible if you and your team aren't up to the Perl and Javascript'ing that the experts would use: you could use a free tool like MARCEdit which has rather simple 'script' functions to import your records, construct barcode numbers, and then re-export them.

The Help info with the program is actually nicely complete, but just briefly now, IIRC, (and assuming that you can discriminate easily between the FICT records and ones with other kinds of call numbers), you should be able to read and copy info from a subfield like $100a, truncate (to 3 or 4), and append that to the field of your choosing for call number.

I hope that quick explanation makes some sense and gives you another option.

In the meanwhile, welcome to the Koha community and good luck with your library going live!

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

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From: "Joshua Ferraro" <jmf at liblime.com>
Date: 2008/08/09 Sat PM 12:59:24 CDT
To: "Kate Blair Elliott" <kate.bookgirl at gmail.com>
CC: koha at lists.katipo.co.nz
Subject: Re: [Koha] Call numbers

On Sat, Aug 9, 2008 at 1:48 PM, Kate Blair Elliott
<kate.bookgirl at gmail.com> wrote:
> This might be an obvious question, but we are in the process of installing
> Koha 3.0 but won't be going live with it for several months now.  We are
> small library and still have to automate our system and scan, create marc
> records, and barcode all of our books.
>
> Since these books are all already labeled I was hoping there was a way that
> Koha could be set to automatically generate call numbers based on our
> specifications (for example FICT for fiction plus the first 3 letters of the
> authors last name).
>
> Is there a way to do this or do we have to manually go in and change each
> record to reflect how we want to call number to be displayed.
You could create a plugin to do this based on something like your itemtype
or something, and link it to the itemcallnumber field. This would require a bit
of Perl and JavaScript coding, but it's pretty low barrier to entry.

Cheers,

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