[Koha] Creating Call Numbers

[Nicole Engard]

Louise,

You are not understanding correctly.  Call numbers are assigned by
each library. Libraries will use different call numbers for the same
item depending on the books they have around them on the shelf.  You
can set it up to pull the call number from the 050 or 082 field in to
the 952o ... but that's about as close as you can get to an
automatically filling that field in.

That said, when you import records in bulk there is no way to have
that field fill in automatically, you'd need to edit the MARC file
before you import it using a tool like MARCEdit.

Nicole

On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 8:33 AM, schwitzd <schwitzd at gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear Sir/ Madam,
>
> We are creating an online catalogue system to document over 3,000 items that
> we have in 5 different locations.
>
> We want to assign to each item a call number so that once having found the
> item on Koha we can then find it easily in the actual library location.
> However, when we upload an item in Koha it has the subfield o- Full Call
> Number and this is not automatically generated - we don`t understand why
> this is because shouldn`t it be automatically generated based on the
> preference of the field 2-Source of Classification or shelving scheme (Dewey
> or LOC)??
>
> Maybe we have understood this incorrectly, but what we need to do is
> generate a reference number/code for each item so that it can be labelled on
> the item and then put within the shelves in an ordered way.
>
> How is this possible?
>
> Thank you for your help and support,
>
> Kindest Regards,
>
> Louise
>
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