[Koha] Koha without MARC

José Miguel Parrella Romero joseparrella at gmail.com
Wed May 28 14:12:59 NZST 2008


Gautam John escribió:
> Hello:
> 
> I've been looking to use Koha without MARC support. Is this possible
> in Koha 3 and what are the upsides and downsides to not using MARC?
> 
> The reason I ask is that it'll be so much easier to import books into
> the system, from our current Excel sheets, rather than using MARC or
> so I assume.

You can export your Excel sheets in CSV, and then map each column into a
MARC field/subfield -- I wrote a csv2marc.pl script which does the job.

  http://lists.katipo.co.nz/public/koha/2007-November/012750.html

Using Perl, you can migrate from almost anything to MARC.

HTH,
Jose


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