[Koha] :-( and conclusion with cataloguing and acquisition thread

[Missy]

Greetings David

When I was working at the Accountancy Library in Sydney we tackle it is a
two-three pronged fashion.  Each issue (and each copy of each issue if we
received multiples) were barcoded, this allowed us to track all issues or
copies when they were on loan or on circulation.  Once the items where ready
to go off to binding we would actually assign the barcode to the borrowed
status of "At Binding" and when the fully completed bound item came back we
would then delete the barcodes and assign a new barcode to the bound volume.

This also was useful as we in-house indexed a number of the journals and the
library system we used then allowed us to enter this information in and when
we did a subject search we would get the relevant journal articles as well.

For conference papers and special editions, we would again barcode and index
them individually.  The Taxation Institute of Australia (TIA) produced for
quite some time, 2 journals, and all of the conference papers for the
various National and State conferences.  We treated these as a separate
series entirely and bound them as appropriate.

All barcodes were assigned on a first processed basis which reduced the
guessing and setting aside of barcodes in this case.

Regards

Missy
----- Original Message -----
From: "Bigwood, David" <Bigwood at lpi.usra.edu>
To: <koha at lists.katipo.co.nz>
Sent: Saturday, January 25, 2003 1:19 AM
Subject: RE: [Koha] :-( and conclusion with cataloguing and acquisition
thread


I also would like to be able to add items without barcodes. We create
analytics for special issues of journals, these have no barcode but provide
important access to materials.

For example, the journal Icarus has a special issue on the proceedings of a
conference. That issue will be bound with other issues, so that particular
issue will not have a barcode, the volume will. There may be several special
issues in a volume, so we can not just use the barcode from the volume,
unless we duplicate the barcodes for each record. And duplication of
barcodes will not work since we might have to wait a year or more to get all
the issues of the volume to bind. We could not guess what barcode would be
used sometime in the future.

Sincerely,
David Bigwood
bigwood at lpi.usra.edu
Cataloging news: http://www.catalogablog.blogspot.com

>        3. The ability to add items without a barcode. so that barcodes
>        don't have to be set aside for books that have not yet arrived.
>        (This may already exist but I'm not aware of it.  This would be
>        of greater importance if acquisitions was in xhtml and there was
>        a chance that someone would add a book from their cell phone.
>        But others might find it useful.
>
strange thing indeed. Does someone else have something like this ?
Don't you misunderstood what means : "patrons should be able to find
biblios without items in the opac, to see that the book will arrive soon
", as i think it's what you ask for ?

--
Paul POULAIN
Consultant indépendant en logiciels libres
responsable francophone de koha (SIGB libre http://www.koha-fr.org)


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