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• How to add a subscription for a new serial

System Requirement

• Ubuntu Linux OS 16.04
• Koha version 16.05

Pre-requisites

Pre-requisites

And you should also have Admin access in Koha

If not, please visit the Koha Spoken Tutorial series on this website.

Serial Subscription

In this tutorial, we will learn how to add a new subscription for serials.

Login with Superlibrarian user name and the password

• Primary acquisitions contact:
• Primary serials contact:
• Contact about late orders?
• Contact about late issues

These details will be used later in this tutorial.

Likewise, you have to fill in the details of your vendor.

All details shown here are the ones I will be entering in my Koha interface.

(One of two)

Here, we will be prompted to fill in some details.

• In the field for Vendor name, I will type Mumbai Journal Supplier.
• You should type the name of your vendor here.
• Now click on the OK button on the right side of this field.

• In the table below, under the section Select:, click on Choose adjacent to the Vendor name
• The same page, Add a new subscription (1/2), re-opens.
• Do not close this page as this will be used again later in the tutorial.

Cursor on two blank boxes

Cursor on

• Search for record
• Create record

Adjacent to the Record are two blank boxes.

Under these blank boxes are two tabs:

• Search for record
• Create record

Cursor on Create record

Else, click on the tab Create record to create a new entry for the respective serial.

Click on the tab Search for record.

Therefore, we will click on the tab Search for record.

In the field for Keyword enter- Microbiology.

Click on Search

In the field for Keyword enter Indian.

Then, click on Search at the bottom of the page.

Cursor on

Title- Indian Journal of Microbiology

Publisher- Springer

ISSN-0046-8991

It has the following details as entered earlier:

Title- Indian Journal of Microbiology

Publisher- Springer

ISSN- 0046-8991

You will see the details that you entered.

Cursor on Add a new subscription (1/2), in the field for Record.

Cursor on number 33.

The same window closes and the details entered appear on the page-

Add a new subscription (1/2), in the field for Record

In my case, it shows number 3.

It may be different on your interface depending upon the number of entries that you have made.

• create an item record when receiving this serial,
• do not create an item record when receiving this serial

Cursor on When there is an irregular issue: and the 2 options below.

For Library, I will select Spoken Tutorial Library from the drop-down.

Public note and

Nonpublic note

Public note and

Nonpublic note

I will keep them blank.

From the drop down select Routing List

From the drop-down, select Routing List.

4 for Number of issues to display to staff

4 for Number of issues to display to the public

For Number of issues to display to the public: enter 4.

First issue publication date: enter 01/01/2017

Frequency: select ⅓ months i.e.quarterly from the drop down.

• For First issue publication date: I will enter 01/01/2017

• For Frequency: I will select ⅓ months i.e. quarterly from the drop-down.

• select issues from the drop down
• enter 4 in the box for enter amount in numerals

• Select issues, if not already selected from the drop-down
• Enter 4 in the box for enter amount in numerals

Subscription end date: >> 01/12/2017

Subscription end date: enter 01/12/2017

Locale: Select English from the drop-down

Pause the video and fill the details

Begins with: Volume= 57

Begins with: Number=1

Inner counter: Number =4

Numbering formula should be: Vol.{X}, No.{Y}

In the table Advanced prediction pattern, Koha by default selects values for-

1. Label:
   • For column X as Volume
   • column Y as Number
2. Begins with :
   • For column X as 57
   • Column Y as 1 and so on

1. Number,
2. Publication and
3. Not published

1. Number,
2. Publication date and
3. Not published

Subscription for Indian Journal of Microbiology.

Cursor on-

• Information
• Planning
• Issues
• Summary

Subscription for Indian Journal of Microbiology

with the following details opens:

• Information
• Planning
• Issues
• Summary

• Starting with:

Volume= 57 and

Number= 1

• Rollover:

Volume=99999 and

Number=4

• The tab Starting with: should be Volume and Number: 57 and 1.

• For the tab Rollover: Volume and Number should be 99999 and 12

Cursor on

• Issue number: Vol. 57, No. 1
• Planned date: 01/01/2017
• Published date: 01/01/2017
• Published date (text): would be blank
• Status: Expected

This will show the following details-

• Issue number: as Vol. 57 and No. 1
• Planned date: as 01/01/2017
• Published date: as 01/01/2017
• Published date (text): would be blank
• Status: Expected

• Journals
• Magazines
• Serials
• Newspapers
• and other items

that are published on a regular schedule.

Click on Spoken Tutorial Library>> select log out from the drop-down.

To do so, go to the top right corner of the Koha interface.

Click on Spoken Tutorial Library and select log out from the drop-down.

In this tutorial we learnt:

• How to add a Subscription for a new serial.

In this tutorial we learnt:

• How to add a Subscription for a new serial.

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