I would like to ask for some help on transferring bibliographic records into koha. I agreed to do some volunteer work at our child's new school, a small private academy, and I was aghast to see that one of the tasks was typing -- by hand -- bibliographic records into what turned out to be terribly out-of-date PC library program that lacked not just MARC import capabilities but could only be accessed from a single terminal, etc. After doing some research, it seemed to me that koha might be the best library program for them. Am I correct in this? I've managed to set up koha on an old Apple PowerBook G4 I have at home running Mac OS X Server 10.4. After some effort, most everything seems to be working, including MARC imports. Now I would like to transfer their old records into koha. There are almost 10,000. I could try to do this by mapping the fields (they are tab-delimited) to koha's and using MySQL to import. However, their bibliographic records are, as you might guess, incomplete and idiosyncratic (especially in the subject headings, for example). So it seems to me that it might be better, if it is not too difficult, to try to use the author, title, and perhaps date fields from their old records to download standardized MARC records, from LOC for example, by perhaps modifying one of the koha perl scripts; then I would like to use a perl script to assign the barcode they have used to each item, and perhaps place the old information in a "notes" section. Can anyone give me some guidance on whether this seems feasible, and if so, any suggestions on how I might best accomplish this? Thanks so much, Roger ******************************** Roger Hart Assistant Professor, Departments of History and Asian Studies University of Texas at Austin office: Room 470, Burdine Hall office phone: 512-475-7258 department fax: 512-475-7222 email: rhart@mail.utexas.edu http://uts.cc.utexas.edu/~rhart *********************************