[Koha] Vendor number in serials records

Fischer, Katrin Katrin.Fischer at bsz-bw.de
Tue Mar 4 21:55:23 NZDT 2014


Hi Elaine,

when you use the serials module, the link to the vendor goes into the subscription table - subscription.aqbooksellerid. Not sure if this is what you were looking for.

Katrin


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> From: koha-bounces at lists.katipo.co.nz [mailto:koha-
> bounces at lists.katipo.co.nz] On Behalf Of Elaine Bradtke
> Sent: Monday, March 03, 2014 8:43 PM
> To: koha; Doug Kingston
> Subject: [Koha] Vendor number in serials records
> 
> We have over 200 active serial subscriptions, and 195 different vendors (ah,
> the joys of an esoteric collection). The vendor information has been
> successfully converted and uploaded to our test site. This in turn generated
> vendor numbers, which have been extracted so we know which serial should
> link to what vendor number.
> It would be a simple thing to add these vendor numbers to the serials
> records during the conversion process prior to upload.  But, unless I'm
> missing something, this number doesn't go into the MARC record.  If it does,
> what field (MARC 21)?
> 
> Where would the vendor number need to go in order to add the vendor number
> to the incoming serials records? Another table in the database?
> 
> I hope this is doable, otherwise my colleague who deals with the serials is
> going to have a tedious job manually linking them.
> 
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