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 [email protected] http://www.ccpcs.org/library/ On Sun, Jun 15, 2014 at 4:33 AM, tony.h <[email protected]> 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 > > > > > -- > View this message in context: > http://koha.1045719.n5.nabble.com/Barcode-population-import-tp5801018.html > Sent from the Koha-general mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > _______________________________________________ > Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org > [email protected] > http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha > _______________________________________________ Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org [email protected] http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha
