[Koha] import records and map field to marc

[Nicole Engard]

Jochum,

You may find some helpful instructions in the manual:
http://sites.google.com/a/liblime.com/koha-manual/  I'll let others answer
your best practices questions.


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On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 6:54 AM, Jochum van der Heide <
jochum.vanderheide at lifehope.om.org> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'm about to import our 6000 records from an old DOS based library system
> to Koha 3.0. I understand the best way to do this is using the
> misc/migration_tools/bulkmarcimport.pl tool after creating the marc file
> from csv with MarcEdit. Currently all the fields I could export from our
> old system were the following:
>
> Catalogue Record Number (barcode field?)
> Title                   245a
> Series                  440a
> Author                  100a
> Subject                 650a
> Call number (local)     082ab
> ISBN                    20a
> Publishing - Name       260b
> Publishing - Place      260a
> Publishing - Date       260c
> Extra                   653a?
> GMD (Item type)         942c
>
> What is the best field to use for the barcode? Also the Extra field has
> some additinal info about the subject of the book. I was thinking this
> would perhaps fit in 653a.
>
> I noticed that by default there are a number of MARC fields mandatory. For
> example, what is the 000 leader field used for and why is it mandatory?
> Should I be using those fields or is it save to not make them mandatory?
>
> BTW, are there any instructions available on using the bulkmarkimport tool?
>
> Thanks,
>
> -Jochum
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