On Fri, Nov 05, 2004 at 02:30:07PM +1100, Michael Lake said:
If I search for this in 'Add biblio' up comes the book on 'The scanning electron microscope' in the breeding farm. I can add it and it shows the marc fields, which I can edit, before adding it to the catalog.
But how do I get the thousands of entries from the breeding farm into the catalog?
Hi ya The short answer is you dont :) The breeding farm (which is soon to be renamed though I forget to what) is a place that stores catalog records for you to use when cataloguing. It sounds to me like you want to do a bulk population of your catalogue, to do this, the bulkmarcimport.pl script should be used. It lives in the misc/ directory. The idea with the breeding farm is you can populate it with marc data and as you acquisition new items, you can use the data in the breeding farm as a starting point. Its not a way to quickly populate a catalogue. I hope this is some help Chris -- Chris Cormack Programmer 027 4500 789 Katipo Communications Ltd chris@katipo.co.nz www.katipo.co.nz