* Gautam John (gautam@prathambooks.org) wrote:

Thanks.

There seemed to be numerous references, albeit in older versions, to the possibility of using Koha without MARC.

Yes Koha was originally designed to be used without MARC. As MARC support was added this functionality was lost. Its something I definitely want to add back. At least the ability to not ever have to see MARC, even if it is being used in the background Chris

Thank you Jose. Will play around with this script. Best, Gautam 2008/5/28 José Miguel Parrella Romero <joseparrella@gmail.com>:

Gautam John escribió:

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Hello:

I've been looking to use Koha without MARC support. Is this possible in Koha 3 and what are the upsides and downsides to not using MARC?

The reason I ask is that it'll be so much easier to import books into the system, from our current Excel sheets, rather than using MARC or so I assume.

You can export your Excel sheets in CSV, and then map each column into a MARC field/subfield -- I wrote a csv2marc.pl script which does the job.

http://lists.katipo.co.nz/public/koha/2007-November/012750.html

Using Perl, you can migrate from almost anything to MARC.

HTH, Jose

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