[Koha] Batch imports of MARC records for e-books and 099 fields for regular books

[Stacy Pober]

Thank you so much for the help.

I had a little bumpy patch figuring out MarcEdit (I haven't had to
really look at cataloging record structure in detail since library
school).

It finally worked when I added:
952$o  Electronic Book
and
942$c EBOOKS

in addition to the fields Tajoli suggested.

It could be that one of those was unnecessary, but since it finally
looked right, I was disinclined to do more testing at that point.

It's now almost exactly right.

There's just one little thing left.  Each book I added has an empty
parentheses at the end of the Availability section of the display.
I'm told this is the # of copies available.

I looked at some of  our records for ebooks that were migrated from
Voyager, and also looked at some other Koha libraries that had ebooks,
but I was unable to figure out what field controlled the contents of
those parenthesis.

Either the parenthesis should have the numeral 1 in them, or they
shouldn't appear at all for e-book records.  So can someone either
tell me what MARC field/subfield controls the contents of those
parenthesis, or else how to suppress the parentheses entirely when
displaying ebooks in search results.

Example of search results with empty parentheses:
<http://man.waldo.kohalibrary.com/cgi-bin/koha/opac-search.pl?q=gale+virtual>
or <http://bit.ly/5i7itX>

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<stacy.pober at manhattan.edu> as I am on digest.]

Advance thanks,
Stacy

On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 5:27 AM, tajoli <tajoli at cilea.it> wrote:
> Dear Stacy,
>
> On Tue, 8 Dec 2009 04:51:42 -0500, Stacy Pober <stacy.pober at manhattan.edu>
> wrote:
>
>> Is thers some shortcut to change all of an incoming batch of MARC-21
>> records to have the same holdings information?  If so, could someone
>> here kindly guide me through it?
>
> yes, it possible.
> You need to manipolate your vendor file and insert, for every record
> a tag 952.
> The structure of 952 id
> http://wiki.koha.org/doku.php?id=en:documentation:marc21holdings_holdings_data_information_for_vendors
>
> Koha Item Type:  Electronic book -> 952$y
> Collection code: Ebooks -> 952$8
> Shelving Location: EBOOKS -> 952$c
>
>> Before uploading the MARC file for the first 200+ records, I used a
>> text editor that could handle large files and  prepended our EZproxy
>> string onto the book's URL using a macro. That went smoothly.   If
>> there is no shortcut or tool in Koha for changing holdings on a large
>> batch of records at once, is there some workaround using an external
>> tool that would let me edit the information into the records before
>> uploading them?
>
> If you need to insert the exact same value in every 952, you can use a text
> editor.
> You can use also MarcEdit, and advanced MARC editor.
> To more advanced manipulation you need to write a specific script.
>
> Attention that the structure of 952 that I write you is the default
> structure of Koha 3.0.x/3.1.x
> LEK could be different.
>
>> And if anyone can tell me how to add an 099 field to an item that
>> isn't imported with one, I'd be most grateful to learn that.
>> We are using 3.01.00.037 with LibLime Enterprise Koha build: 4.0100000.
>
> You need to setup the field 099 as you lke in you cataloguing framework.
> But I don't know if LEK allows you to do it.
> In Koha: Home › Administration › MARC Frameworks > (select the
> framework and read the help).
> http://koha.org/documentation/manual/3.0/administration/catalog-administration/marc-bibliographic-frameworks
>
>
>> And yes, I do know LEK isn't real open source Koha, but there isn't a
>> LEK user's list which I can join.  The support list LibLime set up for
>> bug reports has booted me and some other subscribers off because, I
>> was told, they wanted to limit participation on that list as there was
>> getting to be to much traffic.
>
> I think is quite strange, you have paid to have support to LibLime.
>
> Bye
>

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Stacy Pober
Information Alchemist
Manhattan College Library
Riverdale, NY 10471
stacy.pober at manhattan.edu