What would be the Koha equivalent to Millennium Create Lists* (or Alma 
Normalization Rules and Record Sets)?

So far, I see that lists and carts can be used to update records in Koha, but 
this seems to demand working with a pre-determined list of record numbers, or 
else by manually adding items to a cart.  What if I need to update a huge 
number of "unknown" records meeting specific criteria?

Can anyone suggest what the approach would be to accomplish an objective like 
this:

A non-administrator with limited technical skills needs to gather and update 
40,000 bib records in Koha that can't be identified by any single unifying 
attributes.  My Millennium query might have looked like this:

*         Bib record not attached to order AND

*         (Location is Y or Location is X or Location is Z) and

*         Author is not TODD and

*         Note doesn't have FREE

*Millennium Create Lists allows you to create a Boolean Search, with up to 
about 20 statements, to query the entire database (various methods to search 
subsets or existing result sets also exist) and saves it to a file that can 
then be exported, or operated on (to apply global updates to fixed or variable 
fields, for instance).  No knowledge of SQL is needed.

Thanks in advance for any tips.  As an administrator, I could conceivably do 
this with SQL, but that's not feasible for cataloging staff.  We update large 
quantities of records all the time.


Tasha R. Bales
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