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
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