[Koha] MARC importing tool?

[Stephen Hedges]

John, if your file is in the standard iso2709 MARC format, you can use 
bulkmarcimport.pl found in the intranet/scripts/misc
directory of the MARC version (currently 1.9.x) of Koha.

Stephen Hedges
Nelsonville Public Library

> Howdy!
> 
> I've developed a couple of programs that I have 
> used to aid me in 
> populating the library database.
> 
> The first program takes a raw scan of a book's 
> EAN (ie:9781575212784) 
> and converts it into the ISBN (ie:1575212781).
> 
> The second program takes a list of ISBN's and 
> attempts to retrieve the 
> MARC record for each title from the LoC.
> 
> I have successfully used these two programs to 
> obtain MARC records on 
> approximately 4000 titles so far. I think it took 
> about 40 minutes to 
> poll the LoC and save all the responses to a 
> file.
> 
> The only program I need to 
> find/write/beg/borrow/steal is one that will 
> take all these MARC records and import them into 
> KOHA. Is there anything 
> out there that does this already?
> 
> Regards,
> John
> 
> PS: I can make the above mentioned two programs 
> available if there's 
> enough interest.
> 
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