<DIV>Hi Tony:</DIV> <DIV>With Thomas's help, I was able to import record into Koha, only that a few Chinese characters appear to be misread by Koha. I use windows version 2.2.4</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><BR><BR><B><I>Tony Wilson <amwilson.wilson@mindspring.com></I></B> wrote:</DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE class=replbq style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid">I have two questions related to this issue, I think.<BR><BR>One, in the Widows version, am I correct that the bulk import midule <BR>does not work?<BR><BR>Second, we are importing via the browser and then find that the system <BR>seems to be ignoring the second indicator in the 254 field so the <BR>initail artilcles in titles are being used in filing.. Is this an import <BR>problem or something else? The correct indicators seem to be present in <BR>the record.<BR><BR>Tony Wilson<BR>Seattle Academy of Fine Art<BR><BR>Thomas D wrote:<BR><BR>>BULKMARCIMPORT.PL<BR>><BR>>I advise
against using the current Koha web browser interface administration<BR>>tools for importing MARC records if you want complete and/or valid records.<BR>> Any deficiency, and there are many, in the System Administrtion : Biblio<BR>>Framework will result in fields and subfields missing from the biblio<BR>>framework being dropped from records imported through the Koha<BR>>administration web interface. You could add the missing fields and<BR>>subfields to correct for this problem but some time should be taken to audit<BR>>the existing default framework. This is true for System Administration :<BR>>Import. This is also true for the Koha Z39.50 client, which of course does<BR>>not work on MS Windows or OSX for the Koha 2.X.X versions.<BR>><BR>>Import MARC records into Koha in batches using bulkmarcimport.pl to import<BR>>the records. The Unix default path is<BR>>/usr/local/koha/intranet/scripts/misc/migration_tools/bulkmarcimport.pl in<BR>>Koha
2.2.4. Be certain to set the proper values for the environment<BR>>variables PERL5LIB and KOHA_CONF before running the script.<BR>><BR>>Keep a copy of all your records even after using bulkmarcimport.pl Having a<BR>>copy of your records outside Koha protects them against any problems in Koha<BR>>and can be used to reimport them in future.<BR>><BR>><BR>>NO ISBN PROBLEM<BR>><BR>>If you use bulkmarcimport.pl, you also avoid this bug that has manifested<BR>>itself again from Koha 2.2.2 and after. <BR>>http://bugs.koha.org/cgi-bin/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=998 .<BR>><BR>><BR>>Thomas D<BR>><BR>><BR>>Quoting Carol Ku <CAROLCOOL01@YAHOO.COM>:<BR>> <BR>><BR>>>---------------- Beginning of the original message ------------------<BR>>><BR>>>Does MARC record have to have ISBN # in order to be imported? <BR>>>I encounter some<BR>>>problems trying to import some Chinese Books from a university<BR>>>in
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