[Koha-devel] MARC Record Import - Not Getting Items

[Richard Forristall]

Bob,

Thanks so much for the info.  As the developer solely responsible for supporting our librarian, for me it has become both a development issue and end-user issue.  Not being sure if it was code modification required or just ensuring the MARC record had the requisite data, I opted to ask the development experts on this list for the advice -- thanks for your patience :--)

Armed with my new knowledge, I'll dig back through some of the MARC records our librarian has downloaded and view some that are currently in the database using the export you refer to -- I grabbed a copy of Marc Edit about a month ago -- it's nice to be able to see the clear text of a Marc record :--)

Thanks again for your assistance!

Rick Forristall
Programmer Analyst
Goodwill of Central AZ
www.GoodwillAZ.org



-----Original Message-----
From: Bob Birchall @ Calyx [mailto:bob at calyx.net.au]
Sent: Tue 4/27/2010 4:38 PM
To: Richard Forristall; koha-devel at lists.koha.org
Subject: RE: [Koha-devel] MARC Record Import - Not Getting Items
 
Richard,
This is not a development question and might have been better on the general
list.

Koha stores item information in the 952 tag of the marc record.  So the
first question may be whether all the records have a 952 tag.  The fields
within that tag can be readily understood by viewing 'Koha to Marc Mapping'
on the Administration menu and selecting 'items' from the drop down.
(Apologies if this is more basic information than you need.)  

Do you have root access?  If so, simply count the biblio, biblioitems and
the items tables and see if you have a reasonable correspondence.  (You may
have more items than biblios if there are multiple holdings of particular
titles.)

To go further, you could export (part of) your catalogue using the Export
Bibliographic and Holdings utility on the Tools menu, then use MarcEdit (a
Windows application, sadly) to break your marc file into human readable
form.  Do all the items have a barcode (952$p ; items.barcode), a home
branch (952$a ; items.homebranch) and a holding branch (952$b ;
items.holdingbranch)?  I assume your problem manifests in the staff client,
not just the OPAC?

Hope that helps,
Bob Birchall
CALYX


> -----Original Message-----
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> Behalf Of Richard Forristall
> Sent: Wednesday, 28 April 2010 8:04 AM
> To: koha-devel at lists.koha.org
> Subject: [Koha-devel] MARC Record Import - Not Getting Items
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> Our librarian is having trouble with her MARC record imports.  On some
> of the imports, the record imports, but doesn't import the item.  So in
> an OPAC search the record appears, but shows "Availability: No items
> available"
> 
> The librarian has worked with the vendors to modify MARC records, but
> it's a hit-or-miss situation where some records will update with items
> and others won't.
> 
> I just performed a zebra reindex last week for another issue and that
> didn't help with this issue.
> 
> I assume the MARC record needs specific information in a specific
> location to properly map to the Koha database during the import process.
> Is that an accurate assumption?
> 
> Can anyone tell me where in a MARC record the item information needs to
> be stored so I can assist my librarian?
> 
> She is currently having to manually add items in Koha to books that are
> on the shelf when students are checking out the book.
> 
> Any and all help is very much appreciated :--D
> 
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Rick
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