If anyone else might be facing this issue, the below are the steps from getting the .bin file from Springer into Importing it into Koha. Step 1- Rename .bin into .mrc [No changing internal file structure] Step 2- Load this file into MarcEdit Step 3- Make all the customizations [Adding, modifying, deleting records] [The structure once loaded into MarcEdit would like like below as example] =LDR 02417cam 2200577Ia 4500 =001 ocn184903927 =003 OCoLC =005 20100416100144.0 =006 m\\\\\\\\d\\\\\\\\ =007 cr\cn| =008 071219s2007\\\\nyuacf\\sb\\\\001\0\eng\d =040 \\$aGW5XE$cGW5XE$dGW5XE$dYDXCP$dTEX =020 \\$a9780387465265 =020 \\$a038746526X =029 1\$aAU@$b000042133518 =029 1\$aNZ1$b11675905 =029 1\$aAU@$b000043253015 =035 \\$a(OCoLC)184903927 =037 \\$a978-0-387-28223-7$bSpringer$nhttp://www.springerlink.com =050 14$aQP368.7$b.K37 2007eb =060 14$a2006 N-753 =060 14$aWL 102.8$bK18e 2007 =072 \7$aQP$2lcco =082 04$a612.8/042$222 Step 4- You are sure of all of your changes and are now ready to import into Koha Step 5- On the now finalized modified tmp file, Click on File -> Compile File to MARC Step 6- The newly generated file would have .mrc extension and CAN be staged and imported into Koha. Regards, On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 9:44 AM, Susan Mustafa <susan.mustafa@gmail.com>wrote:

Dear All,

Springer has provided me with a .bin file. This file has marc21 data in it and when I stage it into Koha it works fine.

However I have to modify this marc file and add fields or edit fields using the [MarcEditor] tool.

Now the problem is, in order to read it correctly INSIDE the MARCEDITOR, i change the extension from .BIN to .MRC

This is ok up to the loading of the data into the MARC Editor.

Now, I added some new fields as well as I have edited some fields. Now the issue is here.

------------ After adding/editing fields in this file, I SAVE as MRC.

When I try to load this NEW marc file into KOHA using Staging, it does not go through and it says NaN error.

I am not sure what to do now.

I am using Koha 3.0.

I forgot to add an example of the first-file data[the .bin] file from Springer and the data after I convert using MarcEditor and Koha can't read it.

========BEGINNING ====Works=======

02417cam 2200577Ia 4500001001300000003000600013005001700019006001900036007000700055008004100062040003600103020001800139020001500157029002200172029001800194029002200212035002100234037006100255050002500316060001500341060002400356072001300380082001800393049000900411100004800420245020700468260003400675300007400709533024300783504005101026650002501077650002801102650002101130650003001151650002801181650003901209650001901248650004001267650002401307650002401331650002801355650001701383655002901400700002201429776007601451710003401527856014301561856008101704938004001785994001401825 ocn184903927 OCoLC 20100416100144.0 m d cr cn| 071219s2007 nyuacf sb 001 0 eng d aGW5XE cGW5XE dGW5XE dYDXCP dTEX a9780387465265 a038746526X 1 aAU@ b000042133518 1 aNZ1 b11675905 1 aAU@b000043253015 a(OCoLC)184903927 a978-0-387-28223-7 bSpringer nhttp:// www.springerlink.com 14 aQP368.7 b.K37 2007eb 14 a2006 N-753 14 aWL 102.8 bK18e 2007 7 aQP 2lcco 04 a612.8/042 222 aMSDA 1 aKarczmar, A. G. q(Alexander George), d1918- 10 aExploring the vertebrate central cholinergic nervous system h[electronic resource] / cAlexander G. Karczmar ; with contributions by Neelima Chauhan ... [et al.] ; with a foreword ..............................................etc etc etc [Read by * NOTEPAD*]

=========END AFTER SAVE AS .mrc =============Koha can't load it=====Nan error=========

=LDR 02417cam 2200577Ia 4500 =001 ocn184903927 =003 OCoLC =005 20100416100144.0 =006 m\\\\\\\\d\\\\\\\\ =007 cr\cn| =008 071219s2007\\\\nyuacf\\sb\\\\001\0\eng\d =040 \\$aGW5XE$cGW5XE$dGW5XE$dYDXCP$dTEX =020 \\$a9780387465265 =020 \\$a038746526X =029 1\$aAU@$b000042133518 =029 1\$aNZ1$b11675905 =029 1\$aAU@$b000043253015 =035 \\$a(OCoLC)184903927 =037 \\$a978-0-387-28223-7$bSpringer$nhttp://www.springerlink.com =050 14$aQP368.7$b.K37 2007eb =060 14$a2006 N-753 =060 14$aWL 102.8$bK18e 2007 =072 \7$aQP$2lcco =082 04$a612.8/042$222

etc etc etc

Please help, I am stuck at the moment....