Greetings, After yesterday's Koha-US Cataloging SIG meeting where Z39.50 importing was discussed, including both the IRSpy site and how OCLC default encoding is MARC-8, not utf8, I decided to add some servers in Koha, including OCLC. I did watch this free ByWater video on Koha's Z39.50 settings & use (10:31 minutes): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HxZHekLGWxA (thank you for providing this!) It took just a little time to find the correct server info for OCLC for this purpose..but in that process I had found an old post (2011) to the list which provided a link that is no longer valid (if there is a newer post I did not find it); so I want to provide the current link and info to the list for anyone else who may want to try this : Configuration: https://help.oclc.org/Metadata_Services/Z3950_Cataloging/Get_started/Configu... Domain name (hostname): zcat.oclc.org Port: 210 Database names depending on what you are searching : OLUCWorldCat OCLCAuthoritiesLC CAOONL (Canadiana) And of course we use our OCLC cataloging username and pw. This is documentation on using the connection: https://help.oclc.org/Metadata_Services/Z3950_Cataloging/Get_started/About_Z... Thank you SIG meeting participants for inadvertently prompting me to set this up in my Koha. --heather Heather Siemon Wahlstrom Library University of Bridgeport hsiemon@bridgeport.edu<mailto:hsiemon@bridgeport.edu> 203-576-2414
Thank you for all of this, Heather! Best, other heather:) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Ms. Heather Hernandez (she, her, hers) Technical Services Librarian San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park Research Center 2 Marina Blvd., Bldg. E, 3rd floor, San Francisco, CA 94123-1284 415-561-7032, heather_hernandez@nps.gov<https://webmail.lmi.net/src/compose.php?send_to=heather_hernandez%40nps.gov> Library catalog: http://keys.bywatersolutions.com/
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