Hello,
I am working on
moving from a PC based library program, Concourse, to Koha. Koha
installation was straight forward and the system is working. When I import
my marc records I run into some trouble. My records get imported but my
item types don't show and everything is listed in Koha as having zero
items. The item types seem to be stored outside the marc record in
Concourse so I broke my marc export out into separate files for each type of
item. I think I see how to programatically set the item type during import
to Koha. My real struggle is getting the items to show up as items in Koha
and not just biblios. I'm a perl programmer and not a librarian so I don't
quite get it. It looks again like Concourse and Koha use marc
differently. What Koha maps to 952 tags seems to be listed under
852 tags in what Concourse exports. What I am looking for is a hint
about how to adjust things so Koha will believe I have one of each of the items
I am importing records for. As an example I have a two record marc file
with an entry for a copy of Windows XP software and a copy of Adobe Acrobat that
gives me the following when I use dumpmarc. (Our barcode is contained in
852p )
NUM :
0
NUMBER 1
=>
LDR 00355nam 2200133 a 4500
001
:::00005241$&:&@E
005
20050413115220.0
008
000 0 eng u
040 _ax
100 1 _aWindows XP SP2
245
10 _aWindows XP SP 2
250 _ax
260
_ax
_bMicrosoft
852 1 _aMain
Library
_p00005241
_x{BookSysInc::00005241::QB@
::BookSysInc}
_9$ 0.00
NUMBER 2
=>
LDR 00305nam 2200109 a 4500
001
:::00005242$&:&@E
005
20050413151137.0
008
000 0 eng u
100 1 _aAdobe
245 10 _aAdobe Acrobat
5.0
260 _bAdobe
852 1 _aMain
Library
_p00005242
_x{BookSysInc::00005242::QB@
::BookSysInc}
_9$
0.00
==================
Now, when I run the
bulkmarcimport script in verbose mode I get this
deleting
biblios
CHAR : MARC21
1
==>LDR
001
:::00005241$&:&@E
005
20050413115220.0
008
000 0 eng u
040 _ax
100 1 _aWindows XP SP2
245
10 _aWindows XP SP 2
250 _ax
260
_ax
_bMicrosoft
852 1 _aMain
Library
_p00005241
_x{BookSysInc::00005241::QB@
::BookSysInc}
_9$ 0.00 at
/usr/local/koha/intranet/scripts/misc/migration_tools/bulkmarcimport.pl line
118.
1 : 0 items found
ADDED biblio NB 16625 in DB
2
==>LDR
001
:::00005242$&:&@E
005
20050413151137.0
008
000 0 eng u
100 1 _aAdobe
245 10 _aAdobe Acrobat
5.0
260 _bAdobe
852 1 _aMain
Library
_p00005242
_x{BookSysInc::00005242::QB@
::BookSysInc}
_9$ 0.00 at
/usr/local/koha/intranet/scripts/misc/migration_tools/bulkmarcimport.pl line
118.
2 : 0 items found
ADDED biblio NB 16626 in DB
2 MARC record done
in 0.0708580017089844 seconds
How do I explain to
Koha that we want an item recognized for each of the imported records? By
hand I can edit the item and enter the barcode and voila' I have an item that is
requestable. I think that means my marc - koha mapping is at least
close to being right. So is the answer to my problem in modifying
the marc records import or is this something I can fix somewhere in one of the
mapping tables?
Thanks,
Steve
Blass
sblass@asu.edu