Greetings, After yesterday's Koha-US Cataloging SIG meeting where Z39.50 importing was discussed, including both the IRSpy site and how OCLC default encoding is MARC-8, not utf8, I decided to add some servers in Koha, including OCLC.
I did watch this free ByWater video on Koha's Z39.50 settings & use (10:31 minutes): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HxZHekLGWxA (thank you for providing this!) It took just a little time to find the correct server info for OCLC for this purpose..but in that process I had found an old post (2011) to the list which provided a link that is no longer valid (if there is a newer post I did not find it); so I want to provide the current link and info to the list for anyone else who may want to try this : Configuration: https://help.oclc.org/Metadata_Services/Z3950_Cataloging/Get_started/Configuration_guide_for_OCLC_Z39.50_Cataloging Domain name (hostname): zcat.oclc.org Port: 210 Database names depending on what you are searching : OLUCWorldCat OCLCAuthoritiesLC CAOONL (Canadiana) And of course we use our OCLC cataloging username and pw. This is documentation on using the connection: https://help.oclc.org/Metadata_Services/Z3950_Cataloging/Get_started/About_Z39.50_Cataloging Thank you SIG meeting participants for inadvertently prompting me to set this up in my Koha. --heather Heather Siemon Wahlstrom Library University of Bridgeport hsie...@bridgeport.edu<mailto:hsie...@bridgeport.edu> 203-576-2414 _______________________________________________ Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz Unsubscribe: https://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha
