Hello everybody Sorry for the long post. I habe a problem importing my data from my old "handmade" library cataloging system. My attempt to use Koha for our school library is now a second one. I have installed 2.2.7 on debian sarge before without giving much attention to encondings and character settings :-(. In this installation I had entered 80 biblio records, partly imported by Z39.50 (after upgrading to 2.2.9) and partly entered manually. My current installation of Koha is 2.2.9 freshly installed on debian etch. This time I followed the recommandations by Joshua Ferraro on enconding and character sets on http://wiki.koha.org/doku.php?id=encodingscratchpad and that seemes to solve some problems with encodings I experimented on the previous attempt. Using the Marc biblio export I exported all 80 records in a file. I checked this file using MarcEdit's MarcValidator and found some errors :-) After compiling the file into MARC I tried to import these records to the new installation using bulkmarcimport.pl and all went well! The biblios are avaiable together with the holding informations. Hurrah! The first record of this file lookes like this (I know, there are still some useless data in it): =LDR 00845nam a22002774u 4500 =001 000242460 =003 SzZuIDS\ILU =005 20041111135000.0 =008 020702s2002\\\\sz\\\\\\\\\\\\00\\\\ger =020 \\$a3906970000 =040 \\$aSzZuIDS LU LUZHB$cKSOW =072 \7$a780$2IDS LU =090 \\$c1$d1 =245 00$aKetzer und Sekten - einst und heute :$bToleranz und ihre Grenzen in Kirche, Gesellschaft und Staat /$cHans Halter (Hrsg.) =260 \\$aLuzern :$bMaihof-Verl.,$c2002 =300 \\$a76 S. ;$c30 cm =650 \7$aHäretiker$2ilu =650 \7$aToleranz$2ilu =650 \7$aGlaubensfreiheit$2ilu =700 1\$aHalter, Hans =852 \\$bLUZHB$cUHMAG$hR.b 9252 (1) =852 \\$bLUZHB$cUHMAG$hR.b 9252 (2) =852 \\$bLUUHL$cUHPTE$hS.e 62.11 =852 \\$bLUSTA$cSTLES$hBro A 1375 =942 \\$cBUCH =952 \\$85072$dFBGT$k930.9$p23$u1$u1 So I tried to export the data from my old handmade cataloging system building the MARC-records out of the data. I checked them with MarcEdit, corrected what seemed wrong and compiled the file into MARC. The first record looks like this: =LDR 00368nam a2200121 45e0 =008 \\||||||||||||||||||||||||ger =245 00$aElse Lasker-Schüler /$cRedaktion: Axel Ruckaberle =500 \\$aIn: Text und Kritik. - Heft 122 (1994) =600 14$aLasker-Schüler, Else =650 \4$aDeutsche Literatur =650 \4$aSchriftsteller =700 1\$aRuckaberle, Axel =942 \\$cBUCH =952 \\$dFBDT$k830 It stops right at the first record and I get the following output: verwaltung:~# export KOHA=/usr/local/koha/intranet verwaltung:~# export PERL5LIB=$KOHA/modules verwaltung:~# /usr/local/koha/intranet/scripts/misc/migration_tools/bulkmarcimport rt.pl -file Gesamt_export.mrc -v 2 Characteristic MARC flavour: MARC21 Record 1 encoding is UTF-8 UTF-8 LEADER/09: a 1 ==>LDR 00374nam a2200133 45e0 008 ||||||||||||||||||||||||ger 245 00 _aElse Lasker-Schüler / _cRedaktion: Axel Ruckaberle 500 _aIn: Text und Kritik. - Heft 122 (1994) 600 14 _aLasker-Schüler, Else 650 4 _aDeutsche Literatur 650 4 _aSchriftsteller 700 1 _aRuckaberle, Axel 942 _cBUCH 952 _dFBDT _k830 at /usr/local/koha/intranet/scripts/misc/migration_tools/bulkmarcimport.pl line 287. 1 : 1 items found Arguments must be MARC::Field object at /usr/local/koha/intranet/modules/C4/Biblio.pm line 1440 verwaltung:~# What does that mean? Have I forgotten something? I don't see an essential difference between the first example witch worked and this one exept the presence of the 090-fields and the 952$u-field. Are these required? Thank you for your help Beda -- Beda Szukics www.muri-gries.ch Benediktinerkollegium, Bruenigstr. 177 CH-6060 Sarnen