We are just getting around to putting our serials in Koha and yes, I am baffled. I was hoping to use the system to help us better track the serials as they come in so we could claim missing issues in a timely fashion. But the couple attempts I made to set up a fairly simple subscription pattern didn't work as expected. So I'm adding my voice to the appeal - if anyone really understands this, expanding the manual to include more examples and more thorough explanations would really, really help.
On Thu, Jun 5, 2014 at 4:44 PM, Hernandez, Heather < heather_hernan...@nps.gov> wrote: > Hi! > > I have to admit that we find the serials module to be rather baffling. > Although we are using it to check in new issues so that our patrons can get > an email notification when new issues arrive, I couldn't really tell you > why it's doing what it's doing, and I have to say that I'm far from > understanding it. And I'm no serials system newbie--I've been using such > systems since the days of Innovacq way before ILS's were twinkles in the > eyes of developers--but getting our subscriptions to behave in a 'good > enough' manner on Koha seems to have been rather hit and miss, and I > haven't taken the time to fine tune them. > > I also haven't taken the time to figure out claiming, since I wasn't sure > it would be a better solution than just walking around our Reading Room > every now and then to eyeball what hasn't come in and just shooting an > email off to the publisher to get our missing issue(s). Granted, we don't > have a lot of current subscriptions! We also gave up on using Koha for > acquisitions except for storing subscription vendors, since it doesn't meet > our needs--federal purchasing is a bit byzantine, and we have no money to > contribute towards developments. > > I'll keep my eyes open when receiving issues for subscriptions that could > benefit from some work, and will try to compare things with the manual--if > I can contribute anything, I'd be happy to do it--but I may just be > contributing more questions! > > Cheerio, > heather > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > Heather Hernandez > Technical Services Librarian > San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park Research Center > heather_hernan...@nps.gov > 415-561-7032 (voice) 415-556-3540 (fax) > http://www.nps.gov/safr/historyculture/museum-collections.htm > > "The sailor does not pray for wind, he learns to sail."--Gustaf Lindborg > _______________________________________________ > Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org > Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz > http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha > -- 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
