[Koha] Issues with biblio import into Koha

[Olugbenga Adara]

Hello all,

This has got me stumped! 

I am trying to import some set of bib records into Koha totaling about 5300. About 2900 of these records have two items while the remaining has just one item.

Using MarcEdit, I have created two MARC files, the first with the first or only copies of the records, while the 2nd has the records having only the 2nd copy.

I created a unique 001 field for each record and then created a record matching rule based on 001 (Local-number). After importing the MARC file of the 1st copy, I rebuild the zebra index before importing the Marc file for the second copy.

Now the problem is that is that during the second copies import, it says about 500 of the records were not matched, matching the remainder. I had first tried this with a title match but got a similar result. I checked that the records not matched actually exist in the Koha database with the correct 001 value. I don't understand why some records do not match and some do.

The database is fresh with just only one previous bib in it before the imports.

Can anyone please point me in the right direction to sort this out? Or a better way to do the import?

I am running Koha 3.10.4 on debian squeeze (package install)

Thanks
 
Olugbenga Adara


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