[Koha] MARC Bulk Koha Import Perl

[Johan Ugander]

Hello Kohaers,

I'm trying to set up Koha for our meager library here at Deep 
Springs, 25k volumes or so, and we're currently going through the 
process of building a digital register (essentially replacing an 
abandoned collection of poorly kept records)...which has been timely, 
but with lots of help we're more than half way through. However, this 
register was built on some assumptions that I'm hoping hoping hoping 
are true.

1) Is there is a scriptable way (even if i have to write it myself) 
of getting full MARC records into a database from a tabulated list of 
ISBNs, LCNs, Titles, Authors, Publishers, or some combination there 
of? This would essentially involving querying the Library of Congress 
database directly somehow. Through a perl module? hmm.

There is an old MARC database lying around on a CD that has ~15k of 
the records, but we don't know which ones...heh heh heh. This place 
suffers from a horribly short institutional memory. But enough about 
us.

So while this first step is a pretty big step, I am also very 
interested in getting this second step working indifferent of step 1 
since we _do_ have the ~15k records in MARC.

2) Doing a Bulk import of MARC into Koha.

This I assume you all know a lot about, and I just need to be pointed 
in the right direction. I'm a fairly proficient perler, so I should 
be able to figure it out...I've read about something called 
bulkmarcimport? is this in full operation?

The first issue is one I would greatly appreciate help with, though 
it is something I need to figure out pre-Koha, and is not necessarily 
the forte of this list.

Of course, any and all help anyone can provide would be much appreciated.

Thank you,
Johan Ugander
Deep Springs College