[Koha] speeding things up--barcoding our collection

[Marty]

When we started with Koha we had a somewhat similar situation; we did have all items in csv format, but no barcodes whatsoever. 
We entered barcodes either directly in the database or through the csv file (Can't remember exactly, it has been a while). We printed all barcodes (about 6000) with kbarcode (kbarcode.net) because it can do all kinds of barcodes in great quantities. kbarcode can read from the database, which is a great thing, you can link other numbers to the barcode, or print spine labels from the database. hope this little bit helps.

Marty


--- On Tue, 2/3/09, doybia at gmavt.net <doybia at gmavt.net> wrote:

> From: doybia at gmavt.net <doybia at gmavt.net>
> Subject: [Koha] speeding things up--barcoding our collection
> To: koha at lists.katipo.co.nz
> Date: Tuesday, February 3, 2009, 4:44 PM
> At long last my library is starting to barcode our
> collection.
> 
> A little background:
> Most of the catalog already consists of marc records in the
> state union
> catalog. The Dept. of Libraries has kindly loaded these
> records on a disk
> and sent them off to be loaded into Koha.
> 
> Our collection is not barcoded (we are still a manual
> circulation library)
> and our task is to stick a barcode in every book and link
> that barcode to
> the record. We will also be tossing records that don't
> match any physical
> objects and adding records for items that need one.
> 
> The problem:
> I'm trying to think of a way to avoid having to do a
> search to bring up
> each record. We'll be adding the majority of the
> records in shelf-list
> order and it would save a lot of time to be able to work in
> a table in the
> same order. Scan in the barcode, add the call number info,
> take care of a
> couple of other details, save the record.
> 
> Has anyone else faced this problem? What solutions have you
> found?
> 
> Thanks,
> Deborah
> Warren Public Library
> Warren, VT
> 
> 
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