[Koha] best way to catalog new library?

[smurfett at gmail.com]

Wow!  Thanks for the quick reply.  I will check it out.

On a related note, when I search on Koha to these Taiwan z39.50 servers, 
Koha doesn't like the MARC records I downloaded.  I wouldn't let me save 
the record because it keeps complaining about fields that are missing.  I'm 
only vaguely familiar w/ MARC records.  Is this because of compatibility 
issues between the libraries here and the MARC record formats in Koha?  Do 
I have to play w/ how MARC records are setup?  How do I reconcile the 
differences in MARC records?

I used an open z39.50 server listed at IRSpy.  According to that website, 
the z39.50 server I added supports USMARC, which is what I configured the 
syntax as.  I also configured the encoding as UTF8 rather than MARC-8 
(which the sample US servers are configured as).

Thanks!
nancy

On 1/27/12 3:28 AM, Piotr Wejman wrote:
> 2012/1/27<smurfett at gmail.com>:
>> Hi
>>
>> We're a bilingual school  in the US that's trying to catalog our chinese
>> books from scratch.  Because I can't find the Chinese MARC records from US
>> libraries, I've added some z39.50 servers in Taiwan.
>>
>> I'm trying to figure out if there is a way for us to easily catalog our
>> books.  The current Koha interface seem to suggest that I have to type in
>> ISBN numbers one by one, it searches the z39.50, I edit the MARC record, and
>> save it.  I know Koha allows importing via Excel.  But my problem is I don't
>> know how else to get all these MARC records to begin with except through
>> Koha.
>>
>> I bought a barcode scanner and I'd hoped I could somehow scan all the ISBN
>> numbers in and some program will search and download all the MARC records in
>> a batch format instead.
>>
>> Do you have any suggestions on how I can catalog my books?
>>
>> thanks!
>> nancy
>>
>>
>>
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>
> Hi
>
> You can try tu use following script to fetch multiple records from
> list of ISBN numbers:
> http://librarypolice.com/wiki.koha.org/en:documentation:perl_script_using_zoom_for_marc_records_from_z3950_server.html
>
>
> Piotr Wejman
>