Hi there, We are looking to moving from Alice 5.0 to Koha. To that end, I have been playing around with getting our data exported from Alice and imported into Koha. The guts of the problem are this: - After exporting a MARC variant file from Alice, and importing it into Alice, the MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME field is populated with what appears to be todays date, with frey 50 after it, e.g. Personal name 20110321 frey50 - instead of Personal name Koha_author as it was entered in Alice. - I used MARCedit to have a look at my export files, and this is what I am getting: =LDR 00354nam 22001451a 4500 =020 \\$c0.00 =040 \\$aRoyal College of Physicians of Ireland =082 \\$bKOH =100 \\$aKoha_Author =245 \\$aKoha_Title$h[Text] =250 \\$aKoha_Edition =260 \\$bKoha_Publisher$cKoha_Year =300 \\$aKoha_Physical Description =500 \\$aKoha_Notes =600 \\$aKoha_Subject But this is what I am getting back once the import has completed and the index re-indexed, which is all correct except for the MAIN ENTRY LINE 000 -LEADER fixed length control field 00404nam a22001571a 4500 INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER Terms of availability 0.00 CATALOGING SOURCE Original cataloging agency Royal College of Physicians of Ireland DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER Item number KOH MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME Personal name 20110321 frey50 TITLE STATEMENT Title Koha_Title Medium [Text] EDITION STATEMENT Edition statement Koha_Edition PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) Name of publisher, distributor, etc Koha_Publisher Date of publication, distribution, etc Koha_Year PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION Extent Koha_Physical Description GENERAL NOTE General note Koha_Notes I have tried with all the export formats available to me, namely, 02USMARC, 04USMARC with Copy information and 50 USMARC (Containing TLC Compulsory tags) from Alice. I have also imported them as both UNIMARC or MARC21 - but to no avail. Would anyone have any suggestions? Many thanks, Richard ------------------------------------------------------------ Richard Eibrand ICT Manager Royal College of Physicians of Ireland Frederick House 19 South Frederick Street<x-apple-data-detectors://4> Dublin<x-apple-data-detectors://4> 2 Telephone:01- 8639700<tel:01-%208639700> Fax:01-6724707<tel:01-6724707>