Another option is the Z39.50 client in MarcEdit. Also free. It can search by author, title, ISBN or keyword. It also has a batch option, just feed it a file of ISBNs and get a file of MARC records. It is not as sophiscated as Bookwhere, nor Alliance Plus I'd guess. But the price is right and MarcEdit has lots of other uses As for getting the records from the old system into Koha, check if the old system will export MARC records. Those will just import into Koha. No need for conversions of Excel files. If you do need to convert Excel files MarcEdit can help with that. (We all owe Terry Reese a great deal for creating such a useful tool) Sincerely, David Bigwood dbigwood@gmail.com http://catalogablog.blogspot.com _____ From: koha-bounces@lists.katipo.co.nz [mailto:koha-bounces@lists.katipo.co.nz] On Behalf Of BWS Johnson Sent: Thursday, December 06, 2007 9:50 PM To: koha@lists.katipo.co.nz Subject: Re: [Koha] Re: Re: questions from prospective Koha user Salvete!

I think what Robin is looking for is something like Alliance Plus from Follett, where you can search for a title and pull MARC records from somewhere else. I'm new to Koha (still haven't quite got it running), but I wouldn't think it would offer anything like that. I believe Follett charges for the use of Alliance Plus, I do wonder if you could subscribe to something like Alliance Plus and use it with Koha.

Koha most certainly does have an ISBN search feature where someone can import a MARC record from another catalogue using z39.50. It's accessible from the cataloguing module and doesn't take much to get working; just pick your servers and go. I'm old fashioned and tend to import manually, so if someone else wants to chime in on this, go for it. But, I would guess that if someone was looking to do a title search with z39.50, that probably wouldn't be far off. Koha spanks the crizznap outta Follett, IMHO. Cheers, Brooke