[Koha] Importing Biblio Info but not Copies

[Roche III, Edward]

We are doing it ourselves and the catalog is roughly 9800 entries. That was my thought to add just one copy for each record. We have assigned a barcode range for each of our buildings so if I add the barcode to each of those default items that should be good, right?

Thanks!
Ed

Edward J. Roche
Network Administrator
Solanco School District
717.786.2151 x2437

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-----Original Message-----
From: Galen Charlton [mailto:galen.charlton at liblime.com] 
Sent: Monday, June 15, 2009 1:11 PM
To: Roche III, Edward
Cc: koha at lists.katipo.co.nz
Subject: Re: [Koha] Importing Biblio Info but not Copies

Hi,

2009/6/15 Roche III, Edward <edward_roche at solanco.k12.pa.us>:
> We have a school whose DB became corrupt and their copy information is no
> longer available in their current application. So they are going to be our
> test bed for our new Koha install. My question is if I just import the
> biblio information, re-barcode  and do the copy info later what is the best
> way to do this?

If the collection is small enough, just entering the items by hand may
be sufficient.  Alternatively, when you prepare the MARC bib file to
load into Koha, you could using MarcEdit or the like to add a 952
field to each bib so that there is at least one item with the correct
home library.  If the collection is large enough that you are paying a
vendor to print "smart" barcode labels for you, you can likely have
the vendor add 952 fields to your MARC bib records for you.

Regards,

Galen
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