[Koha] Entering exiting data to koha [Using MarcEdit]

[franweimer at juno.com]

I use MarcEdit as my Z39.50 search engine as well as editor.  My questions relate to: creating the holdings field before MARC data is loaded into KOHA 2.2.9 on Windows.  I'm not savvy enough to know how to run the batch load script for loading records batch-by-batch into KOHA.  Can you give some help and instructions?

Perhaps because of familiarity, it seems easier to edit both MARC records and holdings in MarcEdit or Marc Magician rather than KOHA.  For those unfamiliar with MySQL and Perl, is there some good way to get up-to-speed on how to "run scripts" that are mentioned on this list?

Fran
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Fran Weimer
Dallas, TX  75236


-- "Galen Charlton" <galen.charlton at liblime.com> wrote:
Hi,

On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 5:33 AM, dominic Anyanna
<dominic.anyanna at gmail.com> wrote:
> hi
> please i just install koha for my community library and we already have all
> the books and library records typed om a spread sheet already any one has
> any ideas on how i can move this record to koha

There is a freeware Windows MARC editor called MarcEdit
(http://oregonstate.edu/~reeset/marcedit/html/index.php) that has a
function to convert a delimited text file to MARC format.  You could
save your spreadsheet as tab-delimited text or CSV, then use MarcEdit
to create a file that you can import into Koha.

Regards,

Galen
-- 
Galen Charlton
Koha Application Developer
LibLime
galen.charlton at liblime.com
p: 1-888-564-2457 x709
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