[Koha] Items for bulk ebook MARC records

[Anselm Olweny]

Hello Jos,

Have you heard of or used
MarcEdit<http://people.oregonstate.edu/%7Ereeset/marcedit/html/index.php>.
I think this tool will solve your problem. With it you will have to edit
your MARC file and automatically add the item data, i.e. field and subfields
952 $a, $b, $c etc

thanks

Anselm

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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