Lawrence Bean writes: I was able to get the "bulkmarkimport.pl" script to work, with the result: "3995 MARC record done" from the Winnebago export file. Let me know if anything looks different on your end, and what I can do next.

Laura Phelps writes:

I wish I could report that all is well now... but unfortunately, I can't discern any difference. The items seem to still be in the reservoir and I can't figure out how to move them.

Hello list. I (tech) was able to export our MARC records from our current Winnebago system and used the koha web interface to upload them to the reservoir. Laura and Megan (Librarians) could see the recods in the reservoir, but were daunted by the thought of moving each into the catalog one at a time as an acquisition. The answer appeared to be to use the bulkmarkimport.pl script, which I was able to do successfully with the same marc export file from Winnebago I used for the web interface upload. I watched as the terminal output counted off each marc record as it was processed. The librarians report, however, that after doing this they do not "see" what they believe they should be seeing in the catalog. Would a librarian from the list be willing to communicate directly with them to verify whether or not the bulkmarcimport.pl script did what it was expected to do? LPhelps@u47.k12.me.us MFuller@u47.k12.me.us We are currently using koha 2.2.9 on Debian, and before this step the only things we have done is the basic setup for fields and branches and such. I saved this initial MySQL database before proceeding on to this step. At this point in time, just starting out, would anyone suggest it would be beneficial for us to jump right to 3.0a before we continue and "restore" the initial saved database (2.2.9->3.0a database upgrade issues?), or as beginners would it be better for us to stick with 2.2.9 until 3.0 is out of alpha?