[Koha] importing MARC records

[Derek Dresser]

Quoting Derek Dresser <dresserd at gouldacademy.org>:

> Quoting paul POULAIN <paul.poulain at free.fr>:
> 
> > Derek Dresser wrote:
> > 
> > >Hello,
> > >
> > >I am in the process of prototyping Koha for our school.  I have Koha 
up 
> and
> > 
> > >running and am attempting to import some records from our OLD 
Winnebago 
> > >card catalog.  Winnebago exports in a MicroLIF format which is 
supposed 
> to
> > 
> > >be the same as USMARC.  If I attempt to import the records from a 
file, 
> it
> > 
> > >appears to upload the file, and the set name appears on the import 
page,
> 
> > >but when I click on the name to "select a set of MARC records"  I get 
to
> 
> a
> > 
> > >page that says "select a record to import from gould_library" but 
there 
> are
> > 
> > >no records listed.  I pasted a small piece of the MicroLIF/USMARC file 
> > >below.  Should I be able to import this with the MARC import tool?  
> > >
> > Hi everybody,
> > 
> > I'm working for the 1.3.x series of koha on a file sended by Derek, and 
> > I get no problems (import without problems). Thus, I confirm that your 
> > file is true USMARC. Maybe Steve has a problem with the decoding of 
this 
> > record. But MARC::Record package we use in 1.3.x works fine.
> > 
> > I think Steve got the ball here ;-)
> > --
> > Paul
> 
> Thanks Paul,
> I should have mentioned that I started out with the 1.2.2(stable) 
> distribution.  This is a prototype. How unstable is 1.3.1?  Should I give 
> that a try?
> 

Hi,
With a little more digging around, I found the bulkmarkimport.pl script.  
That worked fine.  I imported ~8000 books.  Very cool.  I was previously 
trying to do it through the acquisitions part on koha.

Thanks again,
Derek


-- 
Derek Dresser
Gould Academy
Bethel, ME 04217
(207)824-7700

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