Has anyone done their bulk imports in batches? We've got different collections that are in separate databases. I was planning to import each collection separately, because there are slightly different things that have to be done to the data in each collection. But there's a catch (isn't there always). There are duplicate copies of some the same items across the collections. It seems logical that they should share the same biblio, and have the location, and collection information at the item level. How does this work if you are importing the different collections in sequence? A lot of our stuff pre-dates ISBN so even identifying them may be a trick. However, I was wondering how / if anyone has dealt with this problem. -- Elaine Bradtke Data Wrangler VWML English Folk Dance and Song Society | http://www.efdss.org Cecil Sharp House, 2 Regent's Park Road, London NW1 7AY Tel +44 (0) 20 7485 2206 ext 36 Mob +44 (0) 7789 373982 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Registered Company No. 297142 Charity Registered in England and Wales No. 305999 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Writing about music is like dancing about architecture" --Elvis Costello (Musician magazine No. 60 (October 1983), p. 52)