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[Joe]

We are not creating items for our periodicals. Currently we are using the
"Alternate Holdings Field" option to make holdings in a specific field show
up in the OPAC. Click on Administration in the More Menu and choose "Global
System Preferences". Click on Cataloging on the left side and scroll down
to "Record Structure". The first preference should be the "Alternate
Holdings Field" prefernce. What it does is use a specified field to show
holdings for records that do not have items associated with them. This is
ideal as we have non-standard holdings information for our out of date
periodicals. For titles that have subscriptions we enter "See Subscriptions
for More Details" in the "Alternate Holdings Field". We have copied and
pasted our non-standard holdings into the Manual History for the
subscriptions. They don't show up except in the brief history view, but the
information is there. None of this may be ideal, but it works. :-) It sure
beats paying $1,000 a year for an outdated and mostly useless periodicals
program. :-) We can actually search by subject now. :-)

Sincerely,
-Joe-

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Joseph Alway
Access Services Coordinator
Chan Shun Centennial Library
Southwestern Adventist University

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On Mon, Jun 4, 2012 at 2:04 AM, Haik Zargaryan <haikzargaryan at yahoo.com>wrote:

> Dear community,
>
> I am writing you again for an advice regarding our serials catalog. One of
> our problems is to generate items for periodicals issues which
> themselves are holdings. Ian in his response to my first mail mentioned
> that issues have an option to generate items for themselves at the
> Subscription level. But we do not know the tool, Can somebody hint us?
>
> The second question is about the difficulties with cataloging our
> newspapers. The fields that are for storing complex serial information,
> like 853-855, 863-865, 866-868, are absent in koha. What we really need is
> to display which issues we have and which are missing. Any advises?
>
> Regards,
>
> Haik.
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