[Koha] Importing Catalogue Records

2012-08-12 Thread franc
Dear Members, I'm trying to import a few sample records using the 'Stage MARC records for import' feature of KOHA-3.08.03. A sample ,mrk record is given below for your reference: =LDR 0nam 220Ia 45e0^M =008 120810sxx000\0\und\d^M =020 \\$a001^M =082 \\$a541.39$bN3

Re: [Koha] Importing Catalogue Records

2012-08-17 Thread franc
Dear Moderator, Could you please circulate the above message if it has not been done so already. The message (reply) was sent last Monday, but it bounced because of some technical issues with our email server. Thanks, Francis -- Forwarded message -- Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2012 12:20

Re: [Koha] Importing Catalogue Records

2012-08-17 Thread franc
Dear Moderator, Could you please circulate the above message if it has not been done so already. The message (reply) was sent last Monday, but it bounced because of some technical issues with our email server. Thanks, Francis -- Forwarded message -- Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2012 14:01:

[Koha] Completeness of records for importing

2012-08-20 Thread franc
Dear Members, For the last couple of weeks, I have been experimenting with the Koha's importing feature. I seem to have understood and overcome all the teething problems related to importing of bibliographic records. I have now imported more than 60K records and every thing seems to be working fin

Re: [Koha] Completeness of records for importing

2012-08-21 Thread franc
On Mon, 20 Aug 2012, Galen Charlton wrote: Hi, On 08/20/2012 06:12 AM, fr...@library.iisc.ernet.in wrote: Could you please have look at the sample record given below and let me know if it is complete in all aspects or if any of the obvious and essential fields are missing. The record has

Re: [Koha] Completeness of records for importing

2012-08-21 Thread franc
On Tue, 21 Aug 2012, Paul wrote: At 02:29 PM 8/21/2012 +0530, fr...@library.iisc.ernet.in wrote: [snip] Field 008 has been generated by the MarcEdit tool. Should it be substituted with 260$c using the same tool? I did look up the LoC site to have a better understanding of the field 008. It say

Re: [Koha] Completeness of records for importing

2012-08-21 Thread franc
On Wed, 22 Aug 2012, Savitra Sirohi wrote: Francis, just want to share with you what we do - which is to ignore 008. We just change zebra configuration to use 260c instead of 008 where required. Thank you, Sirohi, for the inputs. Will explore your suggestion. Regards, Francis On Wed, Aug

Re: [Koha] Completeness of records for importing

2012-08-22 Thread franc
On Wed, 22 Aug 2012, Fischer, Katrin wrote: Hi Francis, I would recommend against changing the zebra configuration and mapping of fields. It will most likely cause you some problems later on like keeping your customizations on every update and making more changes as new features get build on

Re: [Koha] Can data from CDISIS transfered to MySQL

2012-08-22 Thread franc
> Hi all > > Presently i am working on CDISIS WINISIS.Now i want to switch over to > KOHA.Kindly guide me can i export my data to MySQL as i have thousands of > records of my Library. > > Kind regards > > > Naveed. Naveed, I have two suggestions to port the data from CDS/ISIS to Koha. Option 1: E

Re: [Koha] I need your help

2012-08-27 Thread franc
On Mon, 27 Aug 2012, Dagne Woldie, MS/HS Library Assistant wrote: we are using koha 3.8, the OPAC is not displaying the call no. is there a way how to fix this. thanks Dagne While importing records into Koha, I had the same problem, initially. In my case the problem was surfacing because f