Thanks Bob for the solution. Yes you have understood my problem very well. I will try it and inform of the out come
On 15 October 2014 04:56, Bob Birchall <[email protected]> wrote: > On 14/10/14 20:54, Chrispin Simasiku Sitali wrote: > >> Greetings Koha Community, >> >> I am at my wits end. I have a marc file with 10 000 records on it. I want >> to have this in my Koha installation for searching only. I am currently >> cataloguing some books and I want to use this for searching through only, >> if I find a marching record for a particular book then I import it in my >> collection. When I finish cataloguing I then delete the collection because >> I may not need it any more Please how do I go about it. >> >> I am using Koha 3.16.04 on Ubuntu 12.04.5 LTS and I installed Koha >> according to http://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Koha_3.x, using package >> install >> >> Kind Regards >> >> Sitali CS >> > If I understand you correctly, then this may be a solution: > > Create a test instance of Koha and import your marc file to it. Configure > your Koha test instance as a z39.50 server. Add its details as a z39.50 > target in your production instance. > > Search in your test instance for the records you are seeking. If you find > them, do a z39.50 search from your production instance and download them > from your test instance. > > When you are finished, delete the test instance. > > I hope I understood your question correctly. > > Best wishes, > Bob Birchall > Calyx > _______________________________________________ > Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org > [email protected] > http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha > -- Charles Lwanga College of Education, P. O. Box 660193, Monze, ZAMBIA. Mobile: +26 0979 869471 +26 0966 869471 SKYPE: Libsitali _______________________________________________ Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org [email protected] http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha
