[Koha] Vendor Marc Records into Koha 3.0

[Joe Atzberger]

Your suspicion is correct.  Any vendor's records will import into Koha as
long as they are valid and match your MARC framework.  The latter is usually
where the hangups are, specifically regarding item data, barcode format,
etc.  In practice, I have dealt with any number of vendors supplying records
that did not match the specs sent with a given order, even in cases where
they had done so successfully on previous orders.

In that scenario, I had various custom conversion scripts available patched
together, but they were all doing essentially the same thing you can do with
the open source tool MarcEdit.  On bigger orders, we would contact the
vendor and request conformant data, and on little ones we would probably
just fix it ourselves.

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Joe Atzberger
LibLime - Open Source Library Solutions

On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 10:07 AM, Marie Wardall <MWardall at dce.k12.wi.us>wrote:

> Hi All-
>
> I'm pretty sure of the answer for this question but must post it to satisfy
> others.
>
> Will MARC records from Baker & Taylor import into Koha without any
> problems?  We were having problems with importing Follett records in and
> have a fix that works for now although it may be affecting imports from
> other vendors.
>
> My guess is that yes, Baker & Taylor records will import into Koha as long
> as the Marc Specs have been changed to meet the Koha 3.0 requirements.
>
> Please let me know if you have imported records from Baker & Taylor and if
> it works or not.
>
> Thanks,
> Marie
>
>
>
> Marie J. Wardall
> Library Media Specialist
> Mountain Bay Elementary School
> 8602 Schofield Ave.
> Weston, WI 54476
> mwardall at dce.k12.wi.us
> Phone: 715-355-0302 ext. 5824
>
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