[Koha] Import Question

[Kyle Hall]

What that script does is assume that the records already have a
biblionumber stored in 999$c for each of the records. Instead of just
generating a new biblionumber and using it for the record, the existing
value in 999$c will be used instead.

If you need your biblionumbers to match your control numbers, you could
preprocess them with something like MarcEdit to copy the control number
value to 999$c for each record. For this to work your control numbers would
have to be numeric only.

Also, I should note that your control number is retained in 001 when it is
imported no matter how you do the import, so this may be a non-issue unless
you are doing something where you specifically assume the control number is
the same as the biblionumber.

Kyle

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ByWater Solutions ( http://bywatersolutions.com )
Meadville Public Library ( http://www.meadvillelibrary.org )
Crawford County Federated Library System ( http://www.ccfls.org )

On Thu, Jan 14, 2016 at 6:31 PM, Shell, Lezlie <
Lezlie.Shell at contractor.cengage.com> wrote:

> I have a question about batchImportMARCWithBiblionumbers.pl
>
> I found a reference to this in a 2010 email.  The scenario described, a
> library needing to retain their current control numbers as biblionumbers to
> continue connecting to outside databases, is the same thing we need to do.
> Unfortunately, I didn't see an answer to the question.
>
> The description of the script, "small script to import an iso2709 file
> into Koha with existing biblionumbers in marc record" made me wonder if I
> was importing a marc file into a clean database, if I had our current
> control number in the 001, if this script would use this value as the
> biblionumber.
>
> I know there are a lot of "ifs", but am I on the right track?
>
> Thanks,
> Lezlie
> Questia
>
>
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