[Koha] FW: Acquisition Help

[Paul A]

The question might have been more specifically about tracking donors. We 
put them directly into 952$e (which we've re-labeled as 'Source - donor') 
and have an authorized value list of donors.  As a charity (we have perhaps 
98% of our holdings from donors) so this also allows us to produce 
"tax-receipt inventories" per donor on the fly (sql tab limited 
report.)  Donors also get to see their names in the catalogue (unless of 
course they have requested anonymity, in which case we fudge the OPAC name 
in the auth. value.)

Paul

At 11:45 PM 1/19/2015 +0000, Joann Ransom wrote:


>-----Original Message-----
>From: Larissa Dixon
>Sent: Tuesday, 20 January 2015 12:45 p.m.
>To: Joann Ransom
>Subject: RE: [Koha] Acquisition Help
>
>Hi Jo
>
>I don't know the email address of this gentleman, can you forward my reply 
>to him, thanks
>
>Hi Jack
>
>We don't put on orders for donated items.  We do a catalogue search, when 
>the correct record doesn't come up, we click on the Z39.50 search button 
>that comes up on the right hand side of the screen.  We then do the Z39.50 
>search, find the record we want and download it.  Once you have filled in 
>the relevant details and save the record, it automatically comes up with 
>the box for you to add the item details.
>
>If there is not a Z39.50 record, you can go through the "cataloguing" tab 
>on the front page and add a new record. I just use the default framework 
>and fill in all the relevant details (and click in the right boxes) and 
>then it is just the same as above.
>
>You can also go straight to the "cataloguing" tab to do a Z39.50 record 
>search without searching your catalogue first, if you prefer to do it that 
>way.
>
>I hope this helps.
>
>
>Larissa Dixon
>Collections Librarian
>
>larissad at tetakere.org.nz
>
>Ph. 06 368 1953
>www.tetakere.org.nz
>
>
>
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Joann Ransom
>Sent: Tuesday, 20 January 2015 11:32 a.m.
>To: Larissa Dixon
>Subject: FW: [Koha] Acquisition Help
>
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Koha [mailto:koha-bounces at lists.katipo.co.nz] On Behalf Of Jack Morash
>Sent: Tuesday, 20 January 2015 11:25 a.m.
>To: Koha Listserv
>Subject: [Koha] Acquisition Help
>
>Afternoon Everyone,
>
>In our library, we receive a lot of donated books.  To better track where 
>they came from, I started using the Acquisition portion of 
>Koha.  Apparently we are doing something wrong because we cannot seem to 
>receive the books after they have been put into an order.
>
>We use a Vendor named Donations and have Baskets using the donors 
>name.  We add the books to a basket using External Source (Z39) and use a 
>$0 for Vendor Price.  After 1 to multiple items are added to the Basket, 
>we go back around to the Vendor and Receive Shipments.  You are then asked 
>to put in the Invoice number which we use a date code.  When you go to the 
>next step there are no items to receive.
>
>The above process worked once for one Basket but will not work for other 
>Baskets.  I’ve tried deleting and re-creating both orders and Baskets to 
>no avail.
>
>We are running Version 3.16.04
>Amazon ec2 server instance
>OS is Ubuntu flavored
>
>Any help would be appreciated.
>
>Jack Morash
>South Bay Historical Railroad Society
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