[Koha] Bulk loads of MARC records

[Stephen Hedges]

Erik Peterson said:
> Is the a best way to generate MARC records from a list of ISBNs?

Maybe.  You'd probably want to feed the ISBN's through a Z39.50 client
that's been pointed at a Z39.50 server, like the one at the Library of
Congress (http://www.loc.gov/z3950/).  Even that is a manual process, but
would still save a lot of typing.  And you're going to need to type in all
your holdings information (date accessioned, barcode, price, location,
etc.) for each item, since that doesn't come with the general MARC record.

> Is the a bulk upload tool for MARC records into Koha?  Seems they are some
> old discussion items about something being worked on.

If you have an ISO2709 format file of MARC records, you can use the
bulkmarcimport.pl script, found in the misc directory.  But first you will
need to do your MARC to Koha mapping and check it on the admin page.

-- 
Stephen Hedges
Skemotah Solutions, USA
www.skemotah.com  --  shedges at skemotah.com