Re-catalogue a library
I would appreciate any tips, hints or suggestions for re-cataloguing a 7000 item library. At the moment, an item is scanned and then the record updated via Z39.50 but this is a slow process. What other approaches are there? Thank you, Clint. -- Clint Deckard 136 Tukituki Road Ashley Clinton RD1 Takapau Central Hawkes Bay, New Zealand.
When you say re-cataloguing do you mean that there are records in place from an old system? If so that can be accomplished with some scripting....otherwise read on: We just finished up something like this a year ago and I will say organization is important! It is also important to make sure you have a long list of Z39.50 targets. From my experiences you have found the fastest option and you just need to keep it up! It took 2 people about 6 months of 4 hours of work 5 days a week. Your mileage will vary... Best of luck! //riley Sent from my iPad
On Aug 17, 2015, at 7:45 PM, clint.deckard <clint.deckard@frontiers.co.nz> wrote:
I would appreciate any tips, hints or suggestions for re-cataloguing a 7000 item library.
At the moment, an item is scanned and then the record updated via Z39.50 but this is a slow process. What other approaches are there?
Thank you, Clint.
-- Clint Deckard 136 Tukituki Road Ashley Clinton RD1 Takapau Central Hawkes Bay, New Zealand.
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Likewise with Riley, if you already have an a existing data and you would want to re-catalog them for some reasons I would suggest to use marcedit. 1. Export the data 2. Extract the ISBN 3. Harvest the data through z39.50 using marcedit. 4. Delete the new callnumber and combine the old one since its already attached in the books. Or Just use the new one. 5. Match the biblionumber with the ISBN 6. and lastly re-import them in koha, record matching biblionumber / ISBN. Hope this would help. Wish you all the best and God bless! -- View this message in context: http://koha.1045719.n5.nabble.com/Re-catalogue-a-library-tp5849695p5849699.h... Sent from the Koha-general mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
On 18/08/15 09:43, clint.deckard wrote:
I would appreciate any tips, hints or suggestions for re-cataloguing a 7000 item library.
At the moment, an item is scanned and then the record updated via Z39.50 but this is a slow process. What other approaches are there?
Thank you, Clint.
Hi Clint, One possibility is to compile of file of ISBNs and submit it to your national library (Te Puna in your case). They could provide you with a file of MARC records. Matching on title and author might also be possible. There might be a fee involved and you still have to create items locally, but its quicker than cataloguing individually. Hope this helps. Bob Birchall Calyx
We had a library severely damaged in a flood that had to catalogue about 7-10k items. Volunteers went through boxes, scanning the ISBN and a barcode into a text file and then we used MARCEdit to batch look up the isbns and used a simple perl script to auto generate items then cleaned up the not found by hand. Happy to share scripts, rough as they are, if you are interested On Tue, Aug 18, 2015 at 12:17 AM, Bob Birchall <bob@calyx.net.au> wrote:
On 18/08/15 09:43, clint.deckard wrote:
I would appreciate any tips, hints or suggestions for re-cataloguing a 7000 item library.
At the moment, an item is scanned and then the record updated via Z39.50 but this is a slow process. What other approaches are there?
Thank you, Clint.
Hi Clint, One possibility is to compile of file of ISBNs and submit it to your national library (Te Puna in your case). They could provide you with a file of MARC records. Matching on title and author might also be possible. There might be a fee involved and you still have to create items locally, but its quicker than cataloguing individually. Hope this helps. Bob Birchall Calyx
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Hi Nick, I'm interested with your script, I might be needing this sometime in the future. Kind regards, On Wed, Aug 19, 2015 at 3:26 AM, Nick Clemens [via Koha] < ml-node+s1045719n5849854h73@n5.nabble.com> wrote:
We had a library severely damaged in a flood that had to catalogue about 7-10k items. Volunteers went through boxes, scanning the ISBN and a barcode into a text file and then we used MARCEdit to batch look up the isbns and used a simple perl script to auto generate items then cleaned up the not found by hand.
Happy to share scripts, rough as they are, if you are interested
On Tue, Aug 18, 2015 at 12:17 AM, Bob Birchall <[hidden email] <http:///user/SendEmail.jtp?type=node&node=5849854&i=0>> wrote:
On 18/08/15 09:43, clint.deckard wrote:
I would appreciate any tips, hints or suggestions for re-cataloguing a 7000 item library.
At the moment, an item is scanned and then the record updated via Z39.50 but this is a slow process. What other approaches are there?
Thank you, Clint.
Hi Clint, One possibility is to compile of file of ISBNs and submit it to your national library (Te Puna in your case). They could provide you with a file of MARC records. Matching on title and author might also be possible. There might be a fee involved and you still have to create items locally, but its quicker than cataloguing individually. Hope this helps. Bob Birchall Calyx
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I am also interested in that script. Thanks Steve sowder@andrews.edu On 8/19/2015 4:03 AM, Jerwyn wrote:
Hi Nick,
I'm interested with your script, I might be needing this sometime in the future.
Kind regards,
On Wed, Aug 19, 2015 at 3:26 AM, Nick Clemens [via Koha] < ml-node+s1045719n5849854h73@n5.nabble.com> wrote:
We had a library severely damaged in a flood that had to catalogue about 7-10k items. Volunteers went through boxes, scanning the ISBN and a barcode into a text file and then we used MARCEdit to batch look up the isbns and used a simple perl script to auto generate items then cleaned up the not found by hand.
Happy to share scripts, rough as they are, if you are interested
On Tue, Aug 18, 2015 at 12:17 AM, Bob Birchall <[hidden email] <http:///user/SendEmail.jtp?type=node&node=5849854&i=0>> wrote:
On 18/08/15 09:43, clint.deckard wrote:
I would appreciate any tips, hints or suggestions for re-cataloguing a 7000 item library.
At the moment, an item is scanned and then the record updated via Z39.50 but this is a slow process. What other approaches are there?
Thank you, Clint.
Hi Clint, One possibility is to compile of file of ISBNs and submit it to your national library (Te Puna in your case). They could provide you with a file of MARC records. Matching on title and author might also be possible. There might be a fee involved and you still have to create items locally, but its quicker than cataloguing individually. Hope this helps. Bob Birchall Calyx
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Could you possibly put them up on GitHub? Thanks, //Riley -- Riley Childs Alumni Charlotte United Christian Academy Library Services Administrator new email: me@rileychilds.me mobile: +1 (704) 497-2086 web: http://www.rileychilds.me ________________________________________ From: Koha <koha-bounces@lists.katipo.co.nz> on behalf of Nick Clemens <nick@quecheelibrary.org> Sent: Tuesday, August 18, 2015 3:24 PM To: Koha Subject: Re: [Koha] Re-catalogue a library We had a library severely damaged in a flood that had to catalogue about 7-10k items. Volunteers went through boxes, scanning the ISBN and a barcode into a text file and then we used MARCEdit to batch look up the isbns and used a simple perl script to auto generate items then cleaned up the not found by hand. Happy to share scripts, rough as they are, if you are interested On Tue, Aug 18, 2015 at 12:17 AM, Bob Birchall <bob@calyx.net.au> wrote:
On 18/08/15 09:43, clint.deckard wrote:
I would appreciate any tips, hints or suggestions for re-cataloguing a 7000 item library.
At the moment, an item is scanned and then the record updated via Z39.50 but this is a slow process. What other approaches are there?
Thank you, Clint.
Hi Clint, One possibility is to compile of file of ISBNs and submit it to your national library (Te Puna in your case). They could provide you with a file of MARC records. Matching on title and author might also be possible. There might be a fee involved and you still have to create items locally, but its quicker than cataloguing individually. Hope this helps. Bob Birchall Calyx
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Here they are: https://github.com/WNickC/batchcat Lots more work to do to make it friendly, but it does the job -Nick On Wed, Aug 19, 2015 at 9:37 AM, Riley Childs <rchilds@cucawarriors.com> wrote:
Could you possibly put them up on GitHub? Thanks, //Riley
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________________________________________ From: Koha <koha-bounces@lists.katipo.co.nz> on behalf of Nick Clemens < nick@quecheelibrary.org> Sent: Tuesday, August 18, 2015 3:24 PM To: Koha Subject: Re: [Koha] Re-catalogue a library
We had a library severely damaged in a flood that had to catalogue about 7-10k items. Volunteers went through boxes, scanning the ISBN and a barcode into a text file and then we used MARCEdit to batch look up the isbns and used a simple perl script to auto generate items then cleaned up the not found by hand.
Happy to share scripts, rough as they are, if you are interested
On Tue, Aug 18, 2015 at 12:17 AM, Bob Birchall <bob@calyx.net.au> wrote:
On 18/08/15 09:43, clint.deckard wrote:
I would appreciate any tips, hints or suggestions for re-cataloguing a 7000 item library.
At the moment, an item is scanned and then the record updated via Z39.50 but this is a slow process. What other approaches are there?
Thank you, Clint.
Hi Clint, One possibility is to compile of file of ISBNs and submit it to your national library (Te Puna in your case). They could provide you with a file of MARC records. Matching on title and author might also be possible. There might be a fee involved and you still have to create items locally, but its quicker than cataloguing individually. Hope this helps. Bob Birchall Calyx
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Nick Clemens schreef op wo 19-08-2015 om 14:32 [-0400]:
Here they are:
https://github.com/WNickC/batchcat
Lots more work to do to make it friendly, but it does the job
There's a migration toolkit that I nabbed from bywater and tidied up a bit here: https://gitlab.com/catalyst-koha-migration-toolbox/koha-migration-toolbox I'm all for people forking that and making merge requests to add utilities into it. I think something like you have here would suit nicely, and it serves to keep everything in one place. The readme really needs an update too. Maybe I'll do that this morning. -- Robin Sheat Catalyst IT Ltd. ✆ +64 4 803 2204 GPG: 5FA7 4B49 1E4D CAA4 4C38 8505 77F5 B724 F871 3BDF
Looks good nick! Thanks a lot!.. On Thu, Aug 20, 2015 at 2:33 AM, Nick Clemens [via Koha] < ml-node+s1045719n5850033h22@n5.nabble.com> wrote:
Here they are:
https://github.com/WNickC/batchcat
Lots more work to do to make it friendly, but it does the job
-Nick
On Wed, Aug 19, 2015 at 9:37 AM, Riley Childs <[hidden email] <http:///user/SendEmail.jtp?type=node&node=5850033&i=0>> wrote:
Could you possibly put them up on GitHub? Thanks, //Riley
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________________________________________ From: Koha <[hidden email] <http:///user/SendEmail.jtp?type=node&node=5850033&i=2>> on behalf of Nick Clemens < [hidden email] <http:///user/SendEmail.jtp?type=node&node=5850033&i=3>> Sent: Tuesday, August 18, 2015 3:24 PM To: Koha Subject: Re: [Koha] Re-catalogue a library
We had a library severely damaged in a flood that had to catalogue about 7-10k items. Volunteers went through boxes, scanning the ISBN and a barcode into a text file and then we used MARCEdit to batch look up the isbns and used a simple perl script to auto generate items then cleaned up the not found by hand.
Happy to share scripts, rough as they are, if you are interested
On Tue, Aug 18, 2015 at 12:17 AM, Bob Birchall <[hidden email] <http:///user/SendEmail.jtp?type=node&node=5850033&i=4>> wrote:
On 18/08/15 09:43, clint.deckard wrote:
I would appreciate any tips, hints or suggestions for re-cataloguing a 7000 item library.
At the moment, an item is scanned and then the record updated via Z39.50 but this is a slow process. What other approaches are there?
Thank you, Clint.
Hi Clint, One possibility is to compile of file of ISBNs and submit it to your national library (Te Puna in your case). They could provide you with a file of MARC records. Matching on title and author might also be possible. There might be a fee involved and you still have to create items locally, but its quicker than cataloguing individually. Hope this helps. Bob Birchall Calyx
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Nick and other helpful respondents, thank you and everyone else for their input and assistance, it is appreciated. Just in case this might be of interest to someone else, here is short record of this particular re-cataloguing journey. The issue: Library had poor quality records, many original cataloguing records by novices. Subject headings etc did not follow a standard. many of the 'cool' features of Koha are compromised by the poor records. The solution: update records from a single, education specific commercial provider to ensure consistent, accurate, standards based cataloguing. The process: 1. Started by scanning an item and updating the record via Z39.50. Since this was very slow, 2. Created a file of barcodes and retrieved batches of matching records, then used the 'Stage marc records' tools to import. Matching on ISBN was about 60% successful as original ISBNs were 10 digit or as in a number of instances it was the barcode that had scanned as the ISBN in the original record. Added a rule for ISBN , Title and Author as per http://manual.koha-community.org/3.16/en/catadmin.html#recordmatchingrules but the improvement in matching was marginal mainly due to the poor quality of the original records. In the end the librarian has chosen to go back to updating via Z39.50. Although slower, it ensures the best chance of correcting errors and the librarian can be confident in the quality of the records. Not a task you would want to have to repeat. Thank you for all your help. Clint. Nick Clemens wrote:
We had a library severely damaged in a flood that had to catalogue about 7-10k items. Volunteers went through boxes, scanning the ISBN and a barcode into a text file and then we used MARCEdit to batch look up the isbns and used a simple perl script to auto generate items then cleaned up the not found by hand.
Happy to share scripts, rough as they are, if you are interested
On Tue, Aug 18, 2015 at 12:17 AM, Bob Birchall <bob@calyx.net.au> wrote:
On 18/08/15 09:43, clint.deckard wrote:
I would appreciate any tips, hints or suggestions for re-cataloguing a 7000 item library.
At the moment, an item is scanned and then the record updated via Z39.50 but this is a slow process. What other approaches are there?
Thank you, Clint.
Hi Clint, One possibility is to compile of file of ISBNs and submit it to your national library (Te Puna in your case). They could provide you with a file of MARC records. Matching on title and author might also be possible. There might be a fee involved and you still have to create items locally, but its quicker than cataloguing individually. Hope this helps. Bob Birchall Calyx
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