[Koha] Barcode population/import

[Katelyn Browne]

This seems tricky to me--if the barcode is the ISBN, then you can never
have multiple copies of the same book (because barcodes must be unique).

If you will really never have multiple copies of an item, I'd use MarcEdit
to copy the ISBN into the barcode subfield. Rebuilding Zebra isn't a big
deal.

Katelyn Browne
Middle/High School Librarian
Capital City Public Charter School
100 Peabody Street NW
Washington, DC 20011
(202) 387-0309 x1745
kbrowne at ccpcs.org
http://www.ccpcs.org/library/


On Sun, Jun 15, 2014 at 4:33 AM, tony.h <tony.hetrick at keiin.kg> wrote:

> Greetings,
>
> Apparently, I'm missing something in the documentation that should be
> common
> to many library setups: Importing or creating barcodes
>
>  * Using an ISBN list, we have successfully used MarcEdit to build the MARC
> records from the LOC
>  * We inturn imported the .mrc file into Koha
>  * However, without the barcodes, we can't checkin/checkout any books
>  * We could manually edit each item and enter it (painful!). Or we could
> write some SQL code to enter it based on the matching ISBN number, but I
> read that the Zebra indexing needs to be rebuilt following that. Which
> leads
> me to believe that there is an easier way...
>
> Questions:
> What are the best options for going about this?
> 1) Does Koha have an auto-barcode generation tool? If so, where is it?
> 2) What is the procedure for importing a list of barcodes that correspond
> to
> the matching ISBN number?
>
> Best Regards,
> Tony
>
>
>
>
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