2009/7/31 Cab Vinton <bibliwho@gmail.com>
Hmm ... good idea.
The Minuteman catalog doesn't have MARC export functionality, & records can be saved to a list, but no MARC export there either.
MarcEditor will accept text files; format should be like this, however:
=LDR 04217cgm a2200841Ia 4500 =001 ocn175280415 =003 OCoLC =008 071019s2007\\\\cau181\\\\\\\\\\\\mleng\d =040 \\$aEYB$cEYB$dOCLCQ$dOCLCG$dIUL =041 1\$aeng$afre$aspa$beng$bspa$heng =043 \\$ae-un--- =050 \4$aPN1997$b.F43 2007 =130 0\$aFiddler on the roof (Motion picture)
Not this: LEADER 00000cam 2200397Ia 4500 001 233216064 003 OCoLC 008 080703s2008 nyu d 000 1 eng d 020 9780739494752 035 (OCoLC)233216064 040 KKV|cKKV|dWIQ|dIUI|dMLN 050 04 PS3555.V2126|bF43 2008 082 04 813/.54|222 100 1 Evanovich, Janet. 245 10 Fearless fourteen /|cJanet Evanovich.
The latter does not compile correctly into MARC. I changed the following manually & the file compiled fine: * change | to $ * add = before each line * change LEADER to LDR
Not sure whether any of these changes are optional ...
Cab Vinton, Director Sanbornton Public Library Sanbornton, NH
On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 11:32 AM, Harris, Gary, DCA<Gary.Harris@state.nm.us> wrote:
First, download MarcEdit. Once it is installed:
Take the output from Minuteman, changing whatever filename extension is present, if any, to (.mrc). This extension will be recognized by MarcEdit. Double-click the on the file and follow the instructions. I suspect the file is MARC, and if it is, MarcEdit will convert to human-readable text with a new extension (.mrk). Load the .mrc file to Koha if all of the above is true. This procedure is for MarcEdit running under Windows XP.
Gary
-----Original Message----- From: koha-bounces@lists.katipo.co.nz [mailto:koha-bounces@lists.katipo.co.nz] On Behalf Of Owen Leonard Sent: Friday, July 31, 2009 9:05 AM To: Cab Vinton Cc: Koha list Subject: Re: [Koha] MARC record import
Not exactly sure what format it's in -- I just copy & pasted into a text file from a record in the Minuteman Library Network in Mass:
Not really an answer to your question, but... Why not just search for the record using z39.50?
-- Owen
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For our library, I created a MARC editor that actually uses a format something like this: 000 00000cam 2200397Ia 4500 003 OCoLC 100 $a Twain, Mark. 245 14 $a The adventures of Huckleberry Finn / $b by Mark Twain. It understands |a and $a. Indicators are optional, but the leading $a is not. You can see a demo at http://jcfld.us.to:8080/cgi-bin/koha/cataloguing/addbiblio-text.pl (login demo/demo). It's got a few problems dealing with hidden subfields and authorities that would make it best suited to an import facility, but it works quite well for us. -- Jesse Weaver