Monday Minutes: Let's Talk Bundles in Koha

by Kelly McElligott on Jun 19, 2023

In this week's Monday Minutes, Kelly and Jessie dive into creating bundles in Koha, circulating bundles and the entire process of this new feature.

Process

As soon as this feature came up for us to test, Jessie wrote a fabulous blog post on the process of bundles in Koha:

Creating Bundles of Items in Koha

She walks through all the steps of this process. In our Monday Minutes, we use a different example, one that combines separately cataloged items within the system and combines them to make a Grab Bag or Kit.

The process is quite similar, except for each of these items won't be visible on the one bib, like the example she showed in the bundling of a journal. Our Gilmore Girl Set was created by pulling unique records from the catalog to join them together for one fun weekend of all Gilmore Girls.

Here is a look at the bibliographic record we are using for the Bundle:

Here is an image of one of the bibliographic records connected to the bundle and how the status has changed and not for loan, since it is part of a bundle.

A few more details

• If the item that you are using as the Main Barcode for this bundle has a materials specified field filled out (952$3), this will cause an error. A bug has been filed with the community: 34037
• Permissions- a staff member will need to have cataloging permissions to adjust the bibliographic record's leader to change to 'collection'.
• To add items to a bundle, staff will need edit items permission.
• For circulation counts, the main barcode that links all the items together is going to get the circulation statistics. A library could utilize local use for the other pieces of the bundle.
• In our example, Gilmore Girls Set, this bibliographic record is visible on the OPAC. If a library would not like this to be visible, this record could be suppressed.

Additional Resources

Gilmore Girls- Wikipedia page