[Koha] MARC importing tool?

[Steven F. Baljkas]

Tuesday, August 12, 2003     17:55 CDT

John,

WOW!!!

I'm sure we'd all find those programs helpful. I know I'd sure be
interested.

Do you think you could post links to the Koha wiki site?

Cheers,
Steven F. Baljkas
library tech at large
Koha neophyte
Winnipeg, MB  CANADA


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John Voth" <jvoth at shaw.ca>
To: <koha at lists.katipo.co.nz>
Sent: Tuesday, August 12, 2003 2:06 PM
Subject: [Koha] MARC importing tool?


> Howdy!
>
> I've developed a couple of programs that I have used to aid me in
> populating the library database.
>
> The first program takes a raw scan of a book's EAN (ie:9781575212784)
> and converts it into the ISBN (ie:1575212781).
>
> The second program takes a list of ISBN's and attempts to retrieve the
> MARC record for each title from the LoC.
>
> I have successfully used these two programs to obtain MARC records on
> approximately 4000 titles so far. I think it took about 40 minutes to
> poll the LoC and save all the responses to a file.
>
> The only program I need to find/write/beg/borrow/steal is one that will
> take all these MARC records and import them into KOHA. Is there anything
> out there that does this already?
>
> Regards,
> John
>
> PS: I can make the above mentioned two programs available if there's
> enough interest.
>
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