[Koha] Batch imports of MARC records for e-books and 099 fields for regular books

[tajoli]

Dear Stacy,

On Tue, 8 Dec 2009 04:51:42 -0500, Stacy Pober <stacy.pober at manhattan.edu>
wrote:

> Is thers some shortcut to change all of an incoming batch of MARC-21
> records to have the same holdings information?  If so, could someone
> here kindly guide me through it?

yes, it possible.
You need to manipolate your vendor file and insert, for every record
a tag 952.
The structure of 952 id
http://wiki.koha.org/doku.php?id=en:documentation:marc21holdings_holdings_data_information_for_vendors

Koha Item Type:  Electronic book -> 952$y
Collection code: Ebooks -> 952$8
Shelving Location: EBOOKS -> 952$c
 
> Before uploading the MARC file for the first 200+ records, I used a
> text editor that could handle large files and  prepended our EZproxy
> string onto the book's URL using a macro. That went smoothly.   If
> there is no shortcut or tool in Koha for changing holdings on a large
> batch of records at once, is there some workaround using an external
> tool that would let me edit the information into the records before
> uploading them?

If you need to insert the exact same value in every 952, you can use a text
editor.
You can use also MarcEdit, and advanced MARC editor.
To more advanced manipulation you need to write a specific script.

Attention that the structure of 952 that I write you is the default
structure of Koha 3.0.x/3.1.x
LEK could be different.

> And if anyone can tell me how to add an 099 field to an item that
> isn't imported with one, I'd be most grateful to learn that.
> We are using 3.01.00.037 with LibLime Enterprise Koha build: 4.0100000.

You need to setup the field 099 as you lke in you cataloguing framework.
But I don't know if LEK allows you to do it.
In Koha: Home › Administration › MARC Frameworks > (select the
framework and read the help).
http://koha.org/documentation/manual/3.0/administration/catalog-administration/marc-bibliographic-frameworks

 
> And yes, I do know LEK isn't real open source Koha, but there isn't a
> LEK user's list which I can join.  The support list LibLime set up for
> bug reports has booted me and some other subscribers off because, I
> was told, they wanted to limit participation on that list as there was
> getting to be to much traffic.  

I think is quite strange, you have paid to have support to LibLime.

Bye