[Koha] Importing Item Information with Stage MARC Records ForImport tool

[Winter, James]

Kevin,
Galen's solution may be easier. I just haven't had much luck with MarcEdit in a batch mode. But if you're doing a single import, changing the subfields in the import file with MarcEdit would be easier than my suggestion. We're doing an automated import on a regular basis so that wasn't an option for us.

James Winter
215.517.2588


-----Original Message-----
From: koha-bounces at lists.katipo.co.nz [mailto:koha-bounces at lists.katipo.co.nz] On Behalf Of Galen Charlton
Sent: Wednesday, February 25, 2009 10:48 AM
To: kevin smith
Cc: koha at lists.katipo.co.nz
Subject: Re: [Koha] Importing Item Information with Stage MARC Records ForImport tool

Hi Kevin,

On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 10:39 AM, Brendan Gallagher
<info at bywatersolutions.com> wrote:
> In particular to setting Koha to look in the 949 tag for item data.
> You can either go to More>Administration> Koha-to-MARCmapping or edit
> your MARCframework.
>
> The easier way, in my opinion, is to edit the Koha-to-MARCmapping
> section.  Koha is defaulted to 952 field for item data.

Not to bombard you with alternatives, but I would actually recommend
that you use a tool like MarcEdit's global change feature to move the
949s to 952 fields, then import the records.  While Brenden is correct
that you can change the Koha to MARC mapping, that's not enough to get
the item records indexed correctly.  If you're using Zebra, you would
have to edit records.abs.

Regards,

Galen
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