We are not creating items for our periodicals. Currently we are using the "Alternate Holdings Field" option to make holdings in a specific field show up in the OPAC. Click on Administration in the More Menu and choose "Global System Preferences". Click on Cataloging on the left side and scroll down to "Record Structure". The first preference should be the "Alternate Holdings Field" prefernce. What it does is use a specified field to show holdings for records that do not have items associated with them. This is ideal as we have non-standard holdings information for our out of date periodicals. For titles that have subscriptions we enter "See Subscriptions for More Details" in the "Alternate Holdings Field". We have copied and pasted our non-standard holdings into the Manual History for the subscriptions. They don't show up except in the brief history view, but the information is there. None of this may be ideal, but it works. :-) It sure beats paying $1,000 a year for an outdated and mostly useless periodicals program. :-) We can actually search by subject now. :-)
Sincerely, -Joe- -- Joseph Alway Access Services Coordinator Chan Shun Centennial Library Southwestern Adventist University "The World's Great Literary Masterpieces. Freely Available At Your Fingertips. Project Gutenberg. The Free Digital Library." http://www.gutenberg.org On Mon, Jun 4, 2012 at 2:04 AM, Haik Zargaryan <haikzargar...@yahoo.com>wrote: > Dear community, > > I am writing you again for an advice regarding our serials catalog. One of > our problems is to generate items for periodicals issues which > themselves are holdings. Ian in his response to my first mail mentioned > that issues have an option to generate items for themselves at the > Subscription level. But we do not know the tool, Can somebody hint us? > > The second question is about the difficulties with cataloging our > newspapers. The fields that are for storing complex serial information, > like 853-855, 863-865, 866-868, are absent in koha. What we really need is > to display which issues we have and which are missing. Any advises? > > Regards, > > Haik. > _______________________________________________ > Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org > Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz > http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha > _______________________________________________ Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha
