[Koha] Obtaining MARC21 records

[Michael Lake]

Christopher M. Jones wrote:
> I have been playing with Koha some, trying to work out how it works so
> we can start using it at my school. My question is about sources for
> bibliographic records. What is the best (free) way to get a set of
> biblios to populate the catalog, so that we don't have to look up every
> item individually, either manually entering data or searching for items
> through the z3950 search? 
> 
> I see that subscriptions and ftp downloads are available from the LC,
> but the prices here are prohibitive. Is there anyhwere to download large
> numbers of records in large files to be imported into Koha?

See David Bigwood's post to this list;
Subject: [Koha] Test Records
Date: 11/5/2004 1:41 AM

His post is here for you:
> I have made our catalog of MARC records available for anyone who wants them for testing. The file contains about 22,000 records containing about 53,000 items. It has the holdings in field 856. The records are pretty clean but it is the actual catalog of our collection, so it is not perfect.
> 
> I just finished doing some clean-up on the catalog. Using MarcEdit and MARC RTP I was able to spot incorrect or obsolete fields and subfields and change them. I've replaced the file in our FTP site with the cleaned-up version. There are readme files there that explain the file in greater detail. For anyone interested the URL is:
> ftp://www.lpi.usra.edu/pub/outgoing/bigwood
> 
> Sincerely,
> David Bigwood
> bigwood at lpi.usra.edu
> Lunar & Planetary Institute
> http://www.lpi.usra.edu/library/whats_new.shtml

It was really helpful for me.

-- 
Michael Lake
Chemistry, Materials & Forensic Science, UTS
Ph: 9514 1725 Fx: 9514 1460



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