[Koha-devel] Koha proposals requested Bug 6113 enhancement to keep previous ids in bulkmarcimport.pl

[Linda Culberson]

I forgot to say that we are requesting proposals for this.  Sorry, I'm 
still new to this.

On 4/7/2011 8:23 AM, Linda Culberson wrote:
> All,
> I have submitted Bug 6113 to bugzilla for a sponsored enhancement.
> In communicating with other Koha users, we feel that it would be highly
> beneficial Koha was enhanced to allow the library to keep its current
> ids when loading both bibliographic and authority records. Some of us
> have used our current control numbers in the 76X-78X fields to link
> records. In our institution, we have also used that number in external
> databases and on other websites to link additional information back to
> the related catalog record. The documentation within bulkmarcimport.pl
> also needs to be amended to better explain the use of the various
> options (for example: x, y, k, idmap and keepid) since some of us tried
> to use those to keep our ids without success.
>
> Thank you.

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Linda Culberson			lculber at mdah.state.ms.us
Archives and Records Services Division
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