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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=156065117-02082005>H<SPAN
class=640051317-03082005>ello</SPAN>,</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
class=156065117-02082005></SPAN></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=156065117-02082005>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 )</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
class=156065117-02082005></SPAN></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=156065117-02082005>NUM :
0</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=156065117-02082005>NUMBER 1
=><BR>LDR 00355nam 2200133 a 4500<BR>001
:::00005241$&:&@E<BR>005
20050413115220.0<BR>008
000 0 eng u<BR>040 _ax<BR>100 1 _aWindows XP SP2<BR>245
10 _aWindows XP SP 2<BR>250 _ax<BR>260
_ax<BR> _bMicrosoft<BR>852 1 _aMain
Library<BR>
_p00005241<BR> _x{BookSysInc::00005241::QB@
::BookSysInc}<BR> _9$ 0.00<BR>NUMBER 2
=><BR>LDR 00305nam 2200109 a 4500<BR>001
:::00005242$&:&@E<BR>005
20050413151137.0<BR>008
000 0 eng u<BR>100 1 _aAdobe<BR>245 10 _aAdobe Acrobat
5.0<BR>260 _bAdobe<BR>852 1 _aMain
Library<BR>
_p00005242<BR> _x{BookSysInc::00005242::QB@
::BookSysInc}<BR> _9$
0.00<BR>==================<BR></SPAN></FONT><SPAN
class=156065117-02082005></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
class=156065117-02082005></SPAN></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=156065117-02082005>Now, when I run the
bulkmarcimport script in verbose mode I get this</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
class=156065117-02082005></SPAN></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=156065117-02082005>deleting
biblios<BR>CHAR : MARC21<BR>1
==>LDR
<BR>001
:::00005241$&:&@E<BR>005
20050413115220.0<BR>008
000 0 eng u<BR>040 _ax<BR>100 1 _aWindows XP SP2<BR>245
10 _aWindows XP SP 2<BR>250 _ax<BR>260
_ax<BR> _bMicrosoft<BR>852 1 _aMain
Library<BR>
_p00005241<BR> _x{BookSysInc::00005241::QB@
::BookSysInc}<BR> _9$ 0.00 at
/usr/local/koha/intranet/scripts/misc/migration_tools/bulkmarcimport.pl line
118.<BR>1 : 0 items found<BR>ADDED biblio NB 16625 in DB<BR>2
==>LDR
<BR>001
:::00005242$&:&@E<BR>005
20050413151137.0<BR>008
000 0 eng u<BR>100 1 _aAdobe<BR>245 10 _aAdobe Acrobat
5.0<BR>260 _bAdobe<BR>852 1 _aMain
Library<BR>
_p00005242<BR> _x{BookSysInc::00005242::QB@
::BookSysInc}<BR> _9$ 0.00 at
/usr/local/koha/intranet/scripts/misc/migration_tools/bulkmarcimport.pl line
118.<BR>2 : 0 items found<BR>ADDED biblio NB 16626 in DB<BR>2 MARC record done
in 0.0708580017089844 seconds</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
class=156065117-02082005></SPAN></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
class=156065117-02082005></SPAN></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=156065117-02082005>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?</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
class=156065117-02082005></SPAN></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
class=156065117-02082005>Thanks,</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
class=156065117-02082005></SPAN></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=156065117-02082005>Steve
Blass</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=156065117-02082005><FONT face=Arial
size=2>sblass@asu.edu</FONT></DIV></SPAN></DIV></BODY></HTML>