[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Bib/item import question

[Jason Stephenson]

Mary,

I load the MARC records in a source specific to the downloadable  
service, eg. Overdrive or Safari Books Online. These sources have the  
transcendant [sic] flag set to TRUE. This allows the bibs to appear in  
the catalog without having copies attached.

HtH,
Jason Stepenson
MVLC


Quoting Mary Llewellyn <mllewell at biblio.org>:

> We load bibs for downloadable ebooks and audiobooks for a group of
> libraries. Our current system allows us to load item information without an
> item barcode and the system generates a dummy barcode as it loads the item.
> Can Evergreen do that? My first test didn't work: no barcode = no item. I
> was wondering if I missed something. (This is a case where we don't want to
> use 856 subfield 9 because we'd need about 20 856s to get the bibs to
> display to the subscribing libraries, and it would be ugly. We'd prefer to
> use dummy items instead.)
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> Thank you,
>
> Mary
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> Mary Llewellyn
> Database Manager
> Bibliomation, Inc.
> Middlebury, CT
> mllewell at biblio.org
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