[Koha] Issues with Serials

[Ian Walls]

Haik,


In this respect, Koha has 4 entities to keep track of:

   1. The Biblio
   2. Any Items attached to the Biblio
   3. a Subscription attached to the Biblio
   4. Serial issues for the Subscription (which can correspond to Items, if
   you wish)

You can have multiple Subscriptions to a Biblio; this is where you set the
frequency and location information. Issues are received (or not) as they
come in (or not). Each Issue received can also come with a supplement.
Issues have the option, at the Subscription level, to generate item records
for themselves.  I *believe* supplements can also generate their own items,
but I have not tested that.

Do you barcode your serials issues?  Do the multiple parts to an issue get
barcoded separately?


-Ian
On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 2:12 PM, Haik Zargaryan <haikzargaryan at yahoo.com>wrote:

> Dear community,
>
> We are currently testing 3.06.04 to automate our library. Everything is
> still all right with one exception. Our catalog contains a large number of
> serial publications. The problem is that we are not sure how its MARC
> record should look like. With book everything is clear; you have a
> bibliographic record and holdings/items.
>
> Yet, journals and newspapers appear to be somehow tricky. We have decided
> to use koha's "Serials" module for this purpose. So, we create a
> bibliographic record, assign the pattern of publications and the system
> starts to generate items for each Issue. But the problem is that each issue
> has several items for itself, and since we use Items as Issues, there is no
> way to assign additional Items to Issues. This may sound a little bit
> confusing, but those who have used the tool will understand. Is there any
> solution to this problem?
>
> Or, do you have any experience of creating Serial/Newspaper records? Can
> you share some useful examples?
>
> Regards,
> Haik.
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