[Koha] Obtaining MARC21 records

[Steven F. Baljkas]

Saturday, December 11, 2004    21:27 CST

Hi, Harry,

Just finished forwarding the info to Christopher, but I thought I should let
you know that part of the solution has already been achieved.

John Voth offered the listserv his tools back in 2003.

You can check them out at URL http://www.voth.ca/bib.php

I've copied his note to Joshua below as it gives an indication of the
broader discussions that were underway. I don't know what progress has been
made since.

Cheers,

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


message to Koha listserv October 6,
2003=================================================

Howdy Y'All,

Joshua, take a look at my bibliotools here: http://www.voth.ca/bib.php.
I've already created the LoC MARC fetch tool. I've successfully
retrieved about 4000 MARC records in about 40 minutes.

I've also got an EAN to ISBN conversion program there.

John

 > Date: Sat, 4 Oct 2003 16:17:21 -0400
 > From: Joshua Ferraro <jferraro at alma.athenscounty.lib.oh.us>
 > To: Erik Peterson <reefdude at email.com>
 > Cc: koha at lists.katipo.co.nz
 > Subject: Re: [Koha] Bulk loads of MARC records
 >
> > Is there a best way to add books w/o having to type in all the data?
> > I thinking getting creating a list of ISBNs, turning this into MARC
records,
> > and then uploading.
 > sounds sensible
> >
> > Is the a best way to generate MARC records from a list of ISBNs?
 > I don't know about "best", but I've been working on a Perl script
that > reads a list of isbns from a file, fetches the MARC records from LOC
 > and combines them into one large MARC file...eventually I would like
 > to be able to add holdings info, etc., but for now that's all it does.
 > Note that I haven't tested it with more than a few dozen isbns, but
 > more should be ok.  If you're interested let me know.
 >
 > Joshua
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Harry Jackson" <h.jackson at acu.ac.uk>
To: <koha at lists.katipo.co.nz>
Sent: Friday, December 10, 2004 8:18 AM
Subject: Re: [Koha] Obtaining MARC21 records


> Christopher M. Jones wrote:
> > Its a small private Christian school (Jr. High + High) for at-risk
> > African American boys from the New Orleans housing developments. We've
> > got a room with shelves and boxes of donated books, and no money in the
> > budget to hire anyone to be a librarian. I'm just an English teacher who
> > knows something about computers and found Koha one day.
> >
> > ANYTHING you have that might help is welcome :-)
>
> How much Perl do you know? I could write a simple script to fetch from a
> server but you would need to have a machine with Perl (preferably Linux)
> and at least the following modules installed.
>
> Carp
> Net::Z3950
> MARC::Record
>
> There is no point in me writing it if you are unable to use it so let me
> know and I will knock something up and I am sure someone can then
> improve on it.
>
> Harry
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