[Koha] best way to catalog new library?

[Kurt Bodling]

May somewhat depend on just which MARC fields are missing.


If it is 003 and 005, as on lots of records we batch loaded here from a service provider, the you can:

For MARC field 003 - Just enter your library's MARC Organization code (search it at http://www.loc.gov/marc/organizations/org-search.php) or just stick in some abbreviation for your library if you don't have a MARC Organization code -- that's heresy for a cataloger to say, but let's be practical here.

For MARC field 005 - just tab through it and it will fill itself in automatically


For other fields, let us know just which ones your Koha is asking you about.


Kurt


Kurt A. Bodling
Technical Services Librarian
George Washington's Mount Vernon
     Estate, Museum & Gardens



> -----Original Message-----
> From: koha-bounces at lists.katipo.co.nz [mailto:koha-
> bounces at lists.katipo.co.nz] On Behalf Of smurfett at gmail.com
> Sent: Friday, January 27, 2012 1:20 PM
> To: koha at lists.katipo.co.nz
> Subject: Re: [Koha] best way to catalog new library?
> 
> Wow!  Thanks for the quick reply.  I will check it out.
> 
> On a related note, when I search on Koha to these Taiwan z39.50
> servers, Koha doesn't like the MARC records I downloaded.  I wouldn't
> let me save the record because it keeps complaining about fields that
> are missing.  I'm only vaguely familiar w/ MARC records.  Is this
> because of compatibility issues between the libraries here and the MARC
> record formats in Koha?  Do I have to play w/ how MARC records are
> setup?  How do I reconcile the differences in MARC records?
> 
> I used an open z39.50 server listed at IRSpy.  According to that
> website, the z39.50 server I added supports USMARC, which is what I
> configured the syntax as.  I also configured the encoding as UTF8
> rather than MARC-8 (which the sample US servers are configured as).
> 
> Thanks!
> nancy
> 
> On 1/27/12 3:28 AM, Piotr Wejman wrote:
> > 2012/1/27<smurfett at gmail.com>:
> >> Hi
> >>
> >> We're a bilingual school  in the US that's trying to catalog our
> >> chinese books from scratch.  Because I can't find the Chinese MARC
> >> records from US libraries, I've added some z39.50 servers in Taiwan.
> >>
> >> I'm trying to figure out if there is a way for us to easily catalog
> >> our books.  The current Koha interface seem to suggest that I have
> to
> >> type in ISBN numbers one by one, it searches the z39.50, I edit the
> >> MARC record, and save it.  I know Koha allows importing via Excel.
> >> But my problem is I don't know how else to get all these MARC
> records
> >> to begin with except through Koha.
> >>
> >> I bought a barcode scanner and I'd hoped I could somehow scan all
> the
> >> ISBN numbers in and some program will search and download all the
> >> MARC records in a batch format instead.
> >>
> >> Do you have any suggestions on how I can catalog my books?
> >>
> >> thanks!
> >> nancy
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> _______________________________________________
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> >
> > Hi
> >
> > You can try tu use following script to fetch multiple records from
> > list of ISBN numbers:
> >
> http://librarypolice.com/wiki.koha.org/en:documentation:perl_script_us
> > ing_zoom_for_marc_records_from_z3950_server.html
> >
> >
> > Piotr Wejman
> >
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