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<smurf...@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
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