[Koha] Koha Bulk Addition of Items

[Ian Bays]

Hi all,

I have just looked as some data I loaded that has up to 300 items per bib 
and that has a maximum size of 36000 characters in the MARC leader.  I would 
say 200 items would not break the size limit per MARC record as long as item 
notes are not "essays".

There was another posting recently from someone trying to update item 
records using the MARC loader which concluded that as long as you can find a 
match point - usually ISBN (and specify it in the loading screens) then any 
items in 952 tags will be added to the same bib record.  Note they will each 
need their own unique barcodes.

I would stick with preparing your data using MarcEdit which may be able to 
take your data straight from spreadsheet or comma-separated, and match on 
ISBN using the Koha MARC import.

Good luck.

Ian
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Walls, Ian" <Ian.Walls at med.nyu.edu>
To: <koha at lists.katipo.co.nz>
Sent: Thursday, June 25, 2009 9:32 PM
Subject: Re: [Koha] Koha Bulk Addition of Items


> One thing to note:  binary MARC (ISO-2709) has a size limit (around 64k,
> I've heard) that is likely not enough for your many items; best to use
> MARCXML for this kind of import, as it is unrestricted for size.
>
>
> Ian Walls
> Systems Integration Librarian
> NYU Health Sciences Libraries
> (212) 263-8687
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: koha-bounces at lists.katipo.co.nz
> [mailto:koha-bounces at lists.katipo.co.nz] On Behalf Of David Schuster
> Sent: Thursday, June 25, 2009 8:57 AM
> To: koha at lists.katipo.co.nz
> Subject: Re: [Koha] Koha Bulk Addition of Items
>
>
> You would need a 952 for each item on the MARC record to import all your
> items.
>
> If you have some of your data in excell etc with barcodes you may be
> able to
> bring some of that into MARC edit to build your MARC records without
> retyping all of it.
>
> David Schuster
>
> Artistyc wrote:
>>
>> Will adding 952s to MARC within Koha's internal editor after the
> records
>> are staged in the reservoir or in the main collection also add holding
>> Items or does it require the Import script to update the holdings?
>>
>>
>> Cab Vinton wrote:
>>>
>>> If you use MARC Edit, or some other utility, and add multiple 952
> tags
>>> to each record, that should add an equivalent number of additional
>>> items.
>>>
>>> I believe the minimum requirements include the $a, $b, and $y
>>> subfields, but you can obviously add barcodes ($p), location ($c), or
>>> whatever.
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>>
>>> Cab Vinton, Director
>>> Sanbornton Public Library
>>> Sanbornton, NH
>>>
>>> On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 10:45 AM, Artistyc<Artistyc at hotmail.com>
> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I'm a librarian for a school which manages all student texts.
> Needless
>>>> to
>>>> say I have a large number of each textbook, somewhere around 150 to
> 200
>>>> for
>>>> each.  We had previously stored these in a Non-marc based access
>>>> database.
>>>> I'm curious if there is a way to add multiple items simultaneously.
>>>> through
>>>> the GUI it is 1 at a time and the MARC import utility looks like it
>>>> would
>>>> require me to make a marc record for each when all I want is an item
>>>> note.
>>>> is this possible?
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