Dominc --<br><br>Koha is equipped to handle MARC records, the standard format for library collection data. It doesn't sounds like exporting MARC is a possibility for your spreadsheet data. You can approach this two ways:<br>
<ol><li>As a chance to establish fuller catalog records, or<br></li><li>As just another hurdle to bypass.<br></li></ol>Unsurprisingly, I recommend the former. The availability of a more complete and more formal record will affect the quality of search results and the linking of external data (like book jacket images). <br>
<br>If you have available funds, you could acquire MARC records en masse from a vendor like Follett. Or if you have time, you could start pulling records from publicly available z3950 servers. Some small libraries will migrate to an ILS slowly, just putting in any newly acquired items, and cataloging old items as they have time. It's easy enough for them to tell which system to use (by the new barcode, for example). <br>
<br>I actually don't know how you would bypass using MARC at some level. Even if you wanted import directly to mysql, one of the fields is for the MARC record, and it gets used regularly by the rest of the system. Maybe someone else can speak to that.<br>
<br>--Joe Atzgberger<br>Systems Administrator, LibLime<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 6:33 AM, dominic Anyanna <<a href="mailto:dominic.anyanna@gmail.com">dominic.anyanna@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">hi<br>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<br clear="all">
<br>-- <br>Dominic Anyanna<br>+2348034550968<br></blockquote></div><br>