[Koha] importing MARC records

Derek Dresser Derek.Dresser at gouldacademy.org
Thu Oct 17 08:29:04 NZDT 2002


Quoting paul POULAIN <paul.poulain at free.fr>:

> Derek Dresser wrote:
> 
> >Hello,
> >
> >I am in the process of prototyping Koha for our school.  I have Koha up 
and
> 
> >running and am attempting to import some records from our OLD Winnebago 
> >card catalog.  Winnebago exports in a MicroLIF format which is supposed 
to
> 
> >be the same as USMARC.  If I attempt to import the records from a file, 
it
> 
> >appears to upload the file, and the set name appears on the import page, 
> >but when I click on the name to "select a set of MARC records"  I get to 
a
> 
> >page that says "select a record to import from gould_library" but there 
are
> 
> >no records listed.  I pasted a small piece of the MicroLIF/USMARC file 
> >below.  Should I be able to import this with the MARC import tool?  
> >
> Hi everybody,
> 
> I'm working for the 1.3.x series of koha on a file sended by Derek, and 
> I get no problems (import without problems). Thus, I confirm that your 
> file is true USMARC. Maybe Steve has a problem with the decoding of this 
> record. But MARC::Record package we use in 1.3.x works fine.
> 
> I think Steve got the ball here ;-)
> --
> Paul

Thanks Paul,
I should have mentioned that I started out with the 1.2.2(stable) 
distribution.  This is a prototype. How unstable is 1.3.1?  Should I give 
that a try?

-Derek


-- 
Derek Dresser
Gould Academy
Bethel, ME 04217
(207)824-7700

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