[Koha] MARC Bulk Koha Import Perl

[Mike Hansen]

Hello Johann,

	I think I can help you out with at least the first part of your question.  You can get MARC records from the LoC by using the Z39.50 protocol.  I have had success using the YAZ client ( http://www.indexdata.dk/yaz/ ) and Perl's Net::Z3950 on a linux machine.  I have attached a simple script which uses Net::Z3950 to read ISBNs from a text file, look them up on the LoC, and then write the MARC records to a file.  It works pretty well, but I threw it together pretty quickly.  You can also use Perl's MARC::Record to do any processing you need to on the records.
	For your second question, I am not sure on the status of bulkmarcimport.pl, but in theory it should do what you want it to do.  I know there are people who are more knowledgable with this than I.  Anyone want to help me out?


Mike
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