Haik,
In this respect, Koha has 4 entities to keep track of: 1. The Biblio 2. Any Items attached to the Biblio 3. a Subscription attached to the Biblio 4. Serial issues for the Subscription (which can correspond to Items, if you wish) You can have multiple Subscriptions to a Biblio; this is where you set the frequency and location information. Issues are received (or not) as they come in (or not). Each Issue received can also come with a supplement. Issues have the option, at the Subscription level, to generate item records for themselves. I *believe* supplements can also generate their own items, but I have not tested that. Do you barcode your serials issues? Do the multiple parts to an issue get barcoded separately? -Ian On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 2:12 PM, Haik Zargaryan <[email protected]>wrote: > Dear community, > > We are currently testing 3.06.04 to automate our library. Everything is > still all right with one exception. Our catalog contains a large number of > serial publications. The problem is that we are not sure how its MARC > record should look like. With book everything is clear; you have a > bibliographic record and holdings/items. > > Yet, journals and newspapers appear to be somehow tricky. We have decided > to use koha's "Serials" module for this purpose. So, we create a > bibliographic record, assign the pattern of publications and the system > starts to generate items for each Issue. But the problem is that each issue > has several items for itself, and since we use Items as Issues, there is no > way to assign additional Items to Issues. This may sound a little bit > confusing, but those who have used the tool will understand. Is there any > solution to this problem? > > Or, do you have any experience of creating Serial/Newspaper records? Can > you share some useful examples? > > Regards, > Haik. > _______________________________________________ > Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org > [email protected] > http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha > _______________________________________________ Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org [email protected] http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha
