[Koha] HOW TO IMPORT MARC RECORDS INTO KOHA ILS

Russel G. P. Shihepo russellgeeps at gmail.com
Wed Feb 9 23:46:02 NZDT 2022


Dear Community

Allow me to extend my gratitude for the help and valuable feedback. I have
successfully managed to remap and clean up my marc records, now they have
been imported into my Koha system without fail.

Regards,
Russel

On Mon, Feb 7, 2022 at 10:46 PM Katrin Fischer <katrin.fischer.83 at web.de>
wrote:

> Hi Russel,
>
> all good tips so far. You can also use MARCEdit to validate your MARC
> record, to see of fields like LDR and 008 have the correct length.
>
> I am also afraid that there is something odd about the field mapping
> too. For example 020 and 022 ISBN and ISSN, but in your record they
> appear to hold quite different information. Similar for the other
> fields. Your record doesn't appear to be MARC21 or UNIMARC, nor MAB. You
> might want to identify which information is in which fields and to which
> standard fields it should be moved to.
>
> Hope this helps,
>
> Katrin
>
> On 07.02.22 06:32, Russel G. P. Shihepo wrote:
> > Dear Community
> >
> > I have been attempting to stage import MARC records into Koha ILS with no
> > success. The MARC records were an export from our old ABCD system.  Below
> > is the MARC view of the records, perhaps I'm missing something, please
> > advise.
> >
> > =LDR  00000nam  2200000Ia 4500
> > =008  220206s9999||||xx\||||||||||||||\||und||
> > =020  \\$aNA$cJahresbericht der SWA Wissenschaftlichen Gesellschaft Otavi
> > Bergland, Ortsgruppe Tsumeb
> > =022  \\$a Windhoek
> > =942  \\$cBK
> > =952  \\$aNAMSC$bNAMSC$p451a$nMitteilungen
> > =082  \\$aErnst Wilhelm
> > =100  \\$aSWA Wissenschaftliche Gesellschaft$cOrtsgruppe Tsumeb
> > =110  \\$bSerieScientific Society
> > =245  \0$a1989
> > =250  \\$a3 pages
> > =260  \\$b30 cm
> > =600  \\$qSouth West Africa$dAnnual meetings
> > =650  \\$bAlbat$vPER
> > =852  \\$nJohn Meinert
> >
> > Am I perhaps missing something in the records, because i can't seem to go
> > past the final step, import this batch into the catalog.
> >
> >
> > Best regards
> > Russel Shihepo
> > Notitia Systems cc
> > Africa, Namibia
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