Date: Sat, 4 Oct 2003 16:17:21 -0400 From: Joshua Ferraro <jferraro@alma.athenscounty.lib.oh.us> To: Erik Peterson <reefdude@email.com> Cc: koha@lists.katipo.co.nz Subject: Re: [Koha] Bulk loads of MARC records
Is there a best way to add books w/o having to type in all the data? I thinking getting creating a list of ISBNs, turning this into MARC records, and then uploading. sounds sensible
Is the a best way to generate MARC records from a list of ISBNs? I don't know about "best", but I've been working on a Perl script
Saturday, December 11, 2004 21:27 CST Hi, Harry, Just finished forwarding the info to Christopher, but I thought I should let you know that part of the solution has already been achieved. John Voth offered the listserv his tools back in 2003. You can check them out at URL http://www.voth.ca/bib.php I've copied his note to Joshua below as it gives an indication of the broader discussions that were underway. I don't know what progress has been made since. Cheers, Steven F. Baljkas library tech at large, Koha neophyte Winnipeg, MB, Canada message to Koha listserv October 6, 2003================================================= Howdy Y'All, Joshua, take a look at my bibliotools here: http://www.voth.ca/bib.php. I've already created the LoC MARC fetch tool. I've successfully retrieved about 4000 MARC records in about 40 minutes. I've also got an EAN to ISBN conversion program there. John that > reads a list of isbns from a file, fetches the MARC records from LOC
and combines them into one large MARC file...eventually I would like to be able to add holdings info, etc., but for now that's all it does. Note that I haven't tested it with more than a few dozen isbns, but more should be ok. If you're interested let me know.
Joshua
Koha mailing list Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha ============================================================================ ======= ----- Original Message ----- From: "Harry Jackson" <h.jackson@acu.ac.uk> To: <koha@lists.katipo.co.nz> Sent: Friday, December 10, 2004 8:18 AM Subject: Re: [Koha] Obtaining MARC21 records
Christopher M. Jones wrote:
Its a small private Christian school (Jr. High + High) for at-risk African American boys from the New Orleans housing developments. We've got a room with shelves and boxes of donated books, and no money in the budget to hire anyone to be a librarian. I'm just an English teacher who knows something about computers and found Koha one day.
ANYTHING you have that might help is welcome :-)
How much Perl do you know? I could write a simple script to fetch from a server but you would need to have a machine with Perl (preferably Linux) and at least the following modules installed.
Carp Net::Z3950 MARC::Record
There is no point in me writing it if you are unable to use it so let me know and I will knock something up and I am sure someone can then improve on it.
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