Irma wrote:

Hello Tomasz,

We are working with the same kind of issues at the moment.

1) I can send you some files with very good full MARC records, if that were to help you. But do you use MARC21?

Thanks, but that`s not the case. I have my own records in the other ILS (ALEPH to be specific). I extracted the raw data from it in order to figure out the best way of importing it into KOHA and to develop a procedure that would give best results with least effort. After success, I allowed my colleagues to test KOHA, however the biblio and items databases were already outdated. New biblios and items are in Aleph, I can extract them and make them KOHA-importable. The problem would not exist if there were ONLY new biblios with items, however there are items that should be attached to biblio records already existing in KOHA.

3) Are you using as Koha test the 2.2.9 version or 3.0?

I use a Polish fork developed by Wojciech Zatorski. He is developing an "university library" version, I work in a public library, so it`s not the best fit, but still better than "mainstream" KOHA. The fork is heavily modified 2.4 with additions from later versions. Full compatibility is long gone, I guess.

4) There is a script already written for merging brief and full records in the Koha reservoir. I just need to ask for it.

Not my case again :) I have biblios with items with Koha, just need to attach more items to those biblios: read record from file -> look at ISBN in subfield 020a, search biblioitems for matching isbn -> if found, import field 952 only with biblionumber and biblioitemnumber of the found record. If not found, import all fields as a new biblio/biblioitem/item. I know it would create duplicate biblios, but less than importing everything as complete records. Or maybe someone has a better idea?... Regards, Tomasz.