[Koha] Re-catalogue a library

[Nick Clemens]

Here they are:

https://github.com/WNickC/batchcat

Lots more work to do to make it friendly, but it does the job

-Nick

On Wed, Aug 19, 2015 at 9:37 AM, Riley Childs <rchilds at cucawarriors.com>
wrote:

> Could you possibly put them up on GitHub?
> Thanks,
> //Riley
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> From: Koha <koha-bounces at lists.katipo.co.nz> on behalf of Nick Clemens <
> nick at quecheelibrary.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, August 18, 2015 3:24 PM
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> Subject: Re: [Koha] Re-catalogue a library
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> We had a library severely damaged in a flood that had to catalogue about
> 7-10k items.  Volunteers went through boxes, scanning the ISBN and a
> barcode into a text file and then we used MARCEdit to batch look up the
> isbns and used a simple perl script to auto generate items then cleaned up
> the not found by hand.
>
> Happy to share scripts, rough as they are, if you are interested
>
> On Tue, Aug 18, 2015 at 12:17 AM, Bob Birchall <bob at calyx.net.au> wrote:
>
> > On 18/08/15 09:43, clint.deckard wrote:
> >
> >> I would appreciate any tips, hints or suggestions for re-cataloguing a
> >> 7000 item library.
> >>
> >> At the moment, an item is scanned and then the record updated via Z39.50
> >> but this is a slow process.
> >> What other approaches are there?
> >>
> >> Thank you,
> >> Clint.
> >>
> >> Hi Clint,
> > One possibility is to compile of file of ISBNs and submit it to your
> > national library (Te Puna in your case).  They could provide you with a
> > file of MARC records.  Matching on title and author might also be
> > possible.  There might be a fee involved and you still have to  create
> > items locally, but its quicker than cataloguing individually.
> > Hope this helps.
> > Bob Birchall
> > Calyx
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