I found a page in the Wiki on Importing Bibliographic Records http://open-ils.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=evergreen-admin:importing:bibrecord s
It looks like good information, but there's a point not yet covered that my coworker and I were wondering about. Specifically it states: "You can add a copy manually through the staff client via the Holdings maintenance screen, but if you're bulk-importing MARC records you probably want to bulk load the associated copies, call numbers, and barcodes as well. To be written - sorry!" Our question is, can you import copies, call numbers, locations, etc in bulk? Our existing ILS (Horizon) will let us export our MARC Records and holdings info together, but the question is what to do with this, and will the instructions from the wiki page above still apply, or how would they differ? Going through thousands of bib records one at a time, adding holdings info is just not practical, so I'm sure there's got to be a better way. Any guidance is appreciated. Thanks, Karen -- Karen Collier Public Services Librarian Kent County Public Library 408 High Street Chestertown, MD 21620 410-778-3636
