We had a library severely damaged in a flood that had to catalogue about 7-10k items. Volunteers went through boxes, scanning the ISBN and a barcode into a text file and then we used MARCEdit to batch look up the isbns and used a simple perl script to auto generate items then cleaned up the not found by hand. Happy to share scripts, rough as they are, if you are interested On Tue, Aug 18, 2015 at 12:17 AM, Bob Birchall <bob@calyx.net.au> wrote:
On 18/08/15 09:43, clint.deckard wrote:
I would appreciate any tips, hints or suggestions for re-cataloguing a 7000 item library.
At the moment, an item is scanned and then the record updated via Z39.50 but this is a slow process. What other approaches are there?
Thank you, Clint.
Hi Clint, One possibility is to compile of file of ISBNs and submit it to your national library (Te Puna in your case). They could provide you with a file of MARC records. Matching on title and author might also be possible. There might be a fee involved and you still have to create items locally, but its quicker than cataloguing individually. Hope this helps. Bob Birchall Calyx
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