Cataloging Roundtable

Conversation is being recorded…. Here’s the few snippets I was able to catch:

Suppressing items — at bib and item level. Bib, in 942 field; item level, through sys pref OpacHiddenItems.

Development in progress to add a primary status field to the item record, to simplify all the statuses.

Lots of people using MarcEdit to massage records.

Conversation around using MarcEdit’s integration with Koha. See this video from Nick Clemens for how to use this tool in a number of ways to download and push changes to Koha.

Empty records cause? Orphaned records; overlay issues; people bringing in records multiple times because it can’t be found until reindex.

Nick Clemens had Joy at ByWater create a new dedup script that you give it a list (hand-check); a plugin will at some point be developed for that.

Merging option in cataloging search will be in 3.22 — Bug 13886

Changing cataloging search — adding checkin and standard search; will be in 3.22 — Bug 13885