Hello,
I've cataloged electronic databases and assigned them a collection code
ERESOURCES, and an item type ERESOURCES.
No barcodes, of course, because they can't be "checked out." (And where would I
adhere the barcode anyway?)
As far as I can tell there are no problems resulting from having items in Koha
with no barcodes. There are probably some sorting issues somewhere along the
line, though. And a report should be able to pull up all the items without
barcodes, so they could be managed that way (no, I don't have the report SQL to
pass on).
On a related note, we don't barcode manuscripts in our collection (not yet,
anyway) and, more difficult to manage, the "bound with" items we have where
someone bound 3 eighteenth century pamphlets together. Only the first one of
those can have the barcode; the two pamphlets bound behind deserve (and get)
their own bib record and item records, but I can't assign them the same barcode
as the first item (sure, I could give each its own unique barcode, but there is
only 1 physical item so I don't). It looks wrong in the staff module to have a
blank space under barcode but the public doesn't see that.
Anyway, my point here is that there doesn't seem to be any problem from having
those book items in Koha with no barcodes - none of those rare books OR the
electronic databases and websites will be "checked out" so they'll always show
up as available. Which they are.
Kurt
Kurt A. Bodling
Technical Services Librarian
George Washington's Mount Vernon
Estate, Museum & Gardens
P.O. Box 110
Mount Vernon, VA 22121
Phone: 703-799-6835
Fax: 703-799-8698
Email: [email protected]
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Sent: Wednesday, August 31, 2011 7:48 PM
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Subject: [Koha] Cataloguing Electronic resources
Kia ora koutou
I'm wondering how people are cataloguing websites and other electronic
resources so that they are able to be searched by collection codes. I have
trolled the net looking for discussions but have not found anything pertinent
yet. The nub of the problem is that if they don't have attached items you
cannot enter item types and ccodes, however I don't want to assign barcodes.
Are there hidden snags if you have items without barcodes? What happens at
stocktake when you have no actual item to stocktake? Is there a better way to
do this? I have used item types to assign borrower privileges and ccodes as
search points and I am just about to move from 3.2 to 3.4.
Naku noa
Ann Murphy
Katikati College.
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