[Koha] Items for bulk ebook MARC records

[jos.kohado at googlemail.com]

Hi Susan

Thanks for your idea. It's one of the possibilities I thought might be  
available to me, but as previously mentioned I'm fairly new to Koha and  
very new to MARCEdit, so I'm not yet convinced I know what I'm doing here.

I know this isn'ta list discussing MARCEdit, so please forgive the slightly  
off topic question, but if you have any hints as to the best way to achieve  
this rapidly or in bulk in MARCEdit with such a large number of records,  
I'd be most grateful :)

Regards
Jos

On 7 Jun 2010 21:28, Susan Bennett <susan.bennett at geaugalibrary.info> wrote:
> We also use Koha for our e-materials. We found the easiest way to correct  
> this problem, at least for us, was to edit the MARC recods with MarcEdit  
> adding the 952 fields before staging and importing. In this way we can  
> very quickly add the required fields to all the records in the batch.

> Susan Bennett
> ILS System Administrator
> Geauga County Public Library
> 440 286-6811 x 125
> 440 286-7419 FAX



> 2010/6/7 Jos Black jos.kohado at gmail.com>

> Hello

> This is my first question to the list since introducing myself a few  
> months ago,
> so please forgive me if I'm asking a silly question, but I haven't yet  
> been able to find an
> answer out there.

> I'm currently trying to set Koha up as a catalogue and access gateway to  
> our
> eresources collection, as our current (proprietary) library system is a
> nightmare to import anything into. As a first attempt I have successfully
> imported nearly 3000 MARC21 bib records from one of our ebook suppliers  
> into a
> test install of Koha (3.00.00.107, hope to upgrade soon!). However, when I
> search for any of the titles in the OPAC, I get the 'Availability'  
> message 'No
> items available' in the brief results, and in the detail holdings tab I  
> get 'No
> physical items for this record'. The MARC records as supplied don't have  
> any
> item data, either in the Koha 952 item tag, or even item data I could map  
> across
> in the 852, and I'm yet to hear from the supplier that they can supply  
> item data.


> These messages will be off-putting for most of our readers, many of whom  
> are new
> to using libraries, and the vast majority probably won't ask for help, so  
> I need
> to find a way to sort this out.

> How could I tackle this apart from a huge effort in reader education,  
> modifying
> my copy of Koha, or individually creating thousands of items? I have a  
> couple
> of ideas but don't want to reinvent the wheel so would truly appreciate  
> your help.

> Thanks!
> Jos
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