We're coming to the point in our conversion process where I need to start thinking about serials.
We have a database that I will need to convert to MARC. That's the easy part. We have analytics already in Koha with 773 (Host Item Entry) fields, with the host Record control number in place, ready to link to the parent serial records once they are uploaded. We have both current subscriptions and serials that have lapsed or ceased publishing in the same database. All our holdings are in plain text in one field in the database. Some of our holdings are complicated, which is why we used plain text. The plan is to import past holdings for both current and non current serials into a notes field and then start setting up frequency details as new issues come in. I think we have to do this in two steps (upload as biblios and then add subscription info)? Some questions - * Create an item record when receiving this serial: I don't think we want to create an item record for each issue, they never circulate, they're always kept in the same place. Has anyone done this, and why would it be a useful thing to do? *Vendors - we don't use vendors, but we do want to know when an issue is overdue so we can follow up on it. Will we be notified even though we've opted out of 'claiming' missing or late issues? Or will we have to set up each publisher as a vendor? *How many issues appear by default on bibliographic records: Is there a way to set this to 'all'? What do they look like? It would be useful if I could see Koha catalogues with serials records in them to understand what it will look like. . . Thanks in advance for any advice. -- Elaine Bradtke Data Wrangler VWML English Folk Dance and Song Society | http://www.efdss.org Cecil Sharp House, 2 Regent's Park Road, London NW1 7AY Tel +44 (0) 20 7485 2206 (This number is for the English Folk Dance and Song Society in London, England. If you wish to phone me personally, send an e-mail first. I work off site) -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Registered Company No. 297142 Charity Registered in England and Wales No. 305999 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Writing about music is like dancing about architecture" --Elvis Costello (Musician magazine No. 60 (October 1983), p. 52) _______________________________________________ Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha
