On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 09:57:24PM -0400, Zachary Tucker wrote:
Hello all! This is my first post to the Koha list, and I am glad to see there is such an active community around the product. I've only used it for a few days, but I am already very happy with my decision to use Koha over Evergreen, OpenBiblio, etc. My question pertains to importing existing book records. I have a listing of all our records in a CSV file... which contains info such as title, author, etc. The file is attached for reference. In an attempt to import that data, I converted that CSV information to MARC records. the converted file is attached for reference also. But, when I try to import the MARC file, I get an error that the staging was not completed because there are MARC errors. So, I suppose my question has a lot mini questions... did I go about importing the wrong way? Did I convert the CSV file incorrectly? Did I map the data to the wrong MARC fields? I followed the LOC's MARC guide when doing the conversion, but apparently I did something wrong. Any help would be greatly appreciated! Thanks, Zach Tucker IT Director, Nelson Memorial Library
Your converted file is not in proper format. It stayed in what MarcEdit calls mnemonic file and you have to convert it to MARC. I am not using MarcEdit, but I suppose that MarcMaker function will do the job. Regards, Marijana