Hi Susanna,
welcome to the community! I hope I can help a bit with some or your
questions:
There are several cataloging plugins that you can use or use as a base
to create your own.
For inventory numbers:
Go to: Administration > MARC bibliographic frameworks > [pick framework]
> 952 > MARC structure > Edit subfields > i > Other options > Plugin
Candidates for inventory numbers are:
- stocknumber.pl
- stocknumberAV.pl
- stocknumberam123.pl
We usually use a plugin based on stocknumberAV.pl. For this one you
create an authorised value category INVENTORY. Then for each year you
add a new entry, for example:
code: A
description: 1
After activating a plugin, '...' will appear next to the input field in
the item form. Enter the code of your authorised value and click on
them. The inventory number will be automatically generated as A
0000000002. Next time you click the next number will be generated etc.
stocknumberAV will only work with prefixes/codes that are uppercase
words. With this plugin every number can only be assigned once, but you
might get 'holes' if you don't save an item after using the plugin.
stocknumberam123.pl also uses uppercase word prefixes/codes, but looks
for the highest/last value in the db and generates the next value from
there. No need for the authorised value. If you have more than one
person cataloguing at the same time this might result in the same number
used for multiple items.
stocknumber.pl doesn't need an AV value either and just generated a
number without a prefix/code. It depends on your existing inventory
numbers on how well this will work.
You won't need to assign a 001 unless you want to link bibliographic
records using the UseControlNumber system preference (7xx$w -> 001).
There is currently no plugin that can assign the biblionumber to 001
automatically and it probably wouldn't work well right now, because the
biblionumber only exists after saving the record for the first time.
Using your inventory numbers as barcodes should not cause any problems
as long as they are unique.
Hope that helps,
Katrin
On 27.07.2018 14:10, [email protected] wrote:
Dear Koha community,
My name is Susanna Bartsch, one-person librarian at Berlin International
University of Applied Sciences. Im migrating to Koha, planning to go into
production with an own database from mid-September on. For the time being, I
have been using a provisional Koha instance kindly provided by Michael
Kühn last June to learn to use Koha. I guess Ill be writing rather often
to this list in the next months, asking for your expertise. My questions
will surely be of a very basic nature, for which I apologize in advance.
The first part of my first question is about automatic generation of strings
with incremental numbers, specifically:
* in bibliographic records: Control Number (MARC field 001);
* in item records: Inventory Number (field i).
I have been closely reading the Koha 18.05 manual and this lists archive,
and I found many, many central and helpful features Im successfully
experimenting with. But I dont seem able to find any conclusive information
about the automatic generation of Control Number and Inventory Number.
The second part of my question is: Is it possible and advisable to
automatically have the following correspondences:
* Control Number (MARC field 001) = Koha Record Number, but preceded
by some zeros,
e.g. Koha Record Number 1 --> Control Number 0000001;
* Inventory Number (field i) = Barcode (field p),
e.g. 2018/0001?
Perhaps important:
* Im probably not migrating the old Control Numbers.
* My predecessor didnt record Inventory Numbers.
Many thanks in advance for any help!
Kindly,
Susanna
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Susanna Bartsch, MA
Head of Library
<mailto:[email protected]>
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Phone +49 (30) 8105808-15
Berlin International University of Applied Sciences
(former BAU International Berlin University of Applied Sciences)
Heinrich-Heine-Str. 15
10179 Berlin, Germany
New address from September 2018:
Salzufer 6
10587 Berlin, Germany
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