Hello Christine,

Apart from mapping the fields you have in your excel file, you also need to 
create some other fields like permanent location, holding branch, itemtype and 
barcode if you need to circulate the items. Also note that the branch code, 
location, itemtype has to match what you have in Koha.

You may create this fields in excel before converting using marcedit or add 
them in Marcedit after conversion.

In addition to the link Nicole sent you, you can also read

http://manual.koha-community.org/3.4/en/implementation.html#imp-migration and
http://manual.koha-community.org/3.4/en/catguides.html#itemcatguide


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--- On Sat, 8/6/11, Christine Othitis <[email protected]> wrote:

From: Christine Othitis <[email protected]>
Subject: [Koha] Help with MarcEdit Delimited Text Translator
To: [email protected]
Date: Saturday, August 6, 2011, 5:45 AM

Hi group,  I am volunteering with a non-profit organization who has decided to 
use Koha to catalogue their collection. It exists as an Excel spreadsheet.  
Nicole, on this list, pointed me to these instructions for translating the 
Excel file:  http://manual.koha-community.org/3.4/en/marceditexcel.html  I 
thought I made the MARC file correctly, but when I tried to import it into 
Koha, I received an error that said something to the effect of 0 records were 
imported, records don’t exist.   I am looking at the tutorial again and I don’t 
think I mapped the fields correctly as demonstrated in the tutorial.  The 
spreadsheet contains these fields:  
FlagTitle/DescriptionAuthor(s)/Editor/CuratorArtists InvolvedPub. 
YearGalleryCategoryLocationNotesBorrowed  Do I need to change the column 
headings to something else? And if so, what would the map to text be? I went to 
the LOC website, but I can’t understand it :\  Thanks,Christine
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