Hi All,<div><br><div>Let me first follow the suggestion from the subscription confirmation email when I joined this list and introduce myself. I am a cataloger by training and currently a manager of a library technical services department. I have been interested in Koha for a while and have wanted to play around with it since I first heard about it. My background in the command-line environment is essentially nil (a little bit when I was getting my MLS) but I would like to learn more. I found out about the Koha virtual appliances created by Kyle Hall and was able to get Koha up and running in VirtualBox on my MacBook.</div>
<div><br></div><div>My intent is to try to catalog my personal library on Koha and I have a few reasons for doing so. First, I want to have an inventory of my personal collection. Second, I'm just generally curious about Koha and want to learn more about it, and learn a little about ILS administration. Third, where I work, we currently use a very non-standard system, and I want to stay up-to-date and in practice (also, as a manager, I don't really do a lot of cataloging these days) with a system that adheres more closely to cataloging norms. I realize that using Koha for my personal catalog is probably like using a bazooka to swat a fly, but I think it will be very instructive for me nonetheless.</div>
<div><br></div><div>So, that's why I'm here. Now, my question is this: I would like to import authority records that I download form the US Library of Congress. It is my understanding that the only way to do this in Koha is using the <a href="http://bulkauthimport.pl">bulkauthimport.pl</a> script, right? OK, here's the part where I'm embarrassed for being such a noob... How do I do that? I know how to download the MARC record, and I assume I run the script from the command line and not from the Web interface, but I don't know who I need to be logged in as and how to run the script or to point it to the file I want to import. Is this something someone can explain to me? I hope it's not bad form to ask such a basic question.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Thanks for any help you can provide,</div><div>John</div><div><br>-- <br>"I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial by strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country." - Thomas Jefferson<br>
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