[Koha] Thanks, and another import question...

[Nicole Engard]

First, you can have the same location for home and holding branch.  In
your library you will never need to have different location codes.  In
multi-branch systems the home branch is the branch that owns the item
and the holding branch is where the book is now.

As for your location code, you want to set this up Admin > Libraries,
branches and groups Whatever you use for the Code for your library
there is the code you should enter in your $a and $b fields.

Hope that helps a bit,
Nicole

2009/12/10 Amy Schuler <schulera at caryinstitute.org>:
> Good morning,
>
> Thanks to Bernardo, Ian and Lenora for their help yesterday with my
> bulkmarcimport problem.  One of the tips I received alerted me to the fact
> that I did not have a 952 $a AND $b in my MARC records.  I only had the $b
> (permanent location), populated with my library code “Cary”.  I have been
> confused by this $a and $b thing all along (and still am – more on this
> below).  I edited my MARC to include $a, then tried importing the records
> again, and this time the records were loaded (thanks everyone!) although
> items were not.  For each of my 23 MARC records, I received a variation of
> this error:
>
>
>
> “.Item not added (bib 10, item tag #1, barcode 100034): invalid homebranch”
>
>
>
> So, I take this to mean that not only do I need a $a, but it needs to be
> populated before I import the record if I also want to add the item.  Is
> this correct?  Can my $a and $b be the same code?  I am a single location,
> no branches or anything, which is why I had thought that only one or the
> other was needed, but not both.
>
>
>
> If there is someplace in the sys preferences where I specify the $a, I do
> not know where this is.  I see that I have to put in the library code, which
> I did, and then this is identical to the code that I put into my $b.  Do I
> just add $a using MARCedit and add a code to all records there?  I had left
> $a blank when I edited it before the successful import.  I hope I am being
> clear.
>
>
>
> Thanks again for all of your help!  Below is a sample record:
>
>
>
> =LDR  01551ibrary 00433v.141-1
>
> =520  \\$aIES Library has: v.141-162 / 1975-85
>
> =000  01433cas\\2200409\\\4500
>
> =001  ocm05695980\
>
> =003  OCoLC
>
> =005  20030326131229.0
>
> =008  791114c19409999ilusr1p\\\\\\\0\\\a0eng\d
>
> =010  \\$a   06031134
>
> =040  \\$aNYG$cNYG$dDLC$dNSD$dAIP$dAGL$dNST$dAGL$dOCLCQ
>
> =012  \\$a3$k1$m1
>
> =022  0\$a0003-0198
>
> =032  \\$a022420$bUSPS
>
> =037  \\$bAmerican Nurseryman Publishing Company, 77 W. Washington St.,
> Suite 2100, Chicago, IL  60602-2904
>
> =042  \\$alc$ansdp
>
> =043  \\$an-us---
>
> =050  00$aSB354$b.A2
>
> =070  0\$a80$bAm371
>
> =072  \0$aF100
>
> =082  \\$a634.05
>
> =210  0\$aAm. nurserym.
>
> =222  \0$aAmerican nurseryman
>
> =245  00$aAmerican nurseryman.
>
> =260  \\$aChicago, IL,$bAmerican Nurseryman Pub. Co.
>
> =300  \\$av.$bill.$c29 cm.
>
> =310  \\$aSemimonthly
>
> =362  1\$aBegan with issue for Aug. 1, 1940.
>
> =510  1\$aBiological & agricultural index$x0006-3177
>
> =510  0\$aBibliography of agriculture$x0006-1530$bv. 180, no. 5, 1994
>
> =650  \0$aNurseries (Horticulture)$vPeriodicals.
>
> =650  \0$aNurseries (Horticulture)$zUnited States$vPeriodicals.
>
> =780  00$tAmerican nurseryman and the national nurseryman$w(DLC)sf
> 82006965$w(OCoLC)5735711
>
> =780  05$tInterior landscape$gApr. 2001$x1063-1607$w(DLC)sn
> 92003306$w(OCoLC)25908196
>
> =850  \\$aCU-RivA$aDLC$aDNAL$aIn$aNcRS$aTxLT$aVtU
>
> =936  \\$aUnknown$aVol. 193, no. 7 (Apr. 2001)
>
> =952  \\$p100025$oXA .M59$d20050608$bCARY$a
>
>
>
>
>
>
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>
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