Gregory, there is a script in Koha called bulkmarcimport.pl (look in intranet/scripts/misc for this one) that will load an iso2709 file of MARC records directly into your Koha database, by-passing the breeding farm. Run it first without any options to see a help screen. Stephen Gregory Garretson said:
Hello,
I've recently got all my (several thousand) MARC records imported into the breeding farm (in v 2.0.0), and I want to get them into the catalog. As I understand it, using acqui.simple, there are three ways to get records into the catalog: searching on ISBN (which I don't have in most cases, unfortunately), searching on title, and creating an empty biblio, which may be filled in via a Z39.50 search. This last doesn't pull records from the breeding farm, so it's only ISBN and title search that can be used for that.
My question is, is there an easier way to create a biblio entry and an item entry for each of these records in the breeding farm without typing the titles in one by one? (It may be that this would violate some standard library practices, but this is really just meant to be a catalog import, not an inventory.)
Thanks, Gregory Garretson linguist, Perl hacker, non-librarian, incipient Koha enthusiast Boston University
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