Deanna, Thank you for replying. That's great to hear it has been done successfully! If you find any more details about how he did it, I would love to hear. Meanwhile, I'll pass that info about field 852 along to my coworker, and we'll see what we can do with it. :)
Out of curiosity, have you had any success yet with importing patron and/or transaction information? Has anyone else? We're not at that point yet, but we're looking ahead and wondering. Thanks, Karen -----Original Message----- From: Deanna Frazee [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2007 1:44 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [email protected] Subject: RE: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Importing Bibliographic Information Karen, We exported 10,000 of our bib and item records from Horizon and loaded them successfully to a test of Evergreen. I know he had some problems initially, but it looked great when it was done. Basically, he just transferred the item information to one of the 800 tags; for some reason, I'm thinking it was 852. Deanna Frazee Killeen City Library System (254) 501-8995 (254) 501-7704 (fax) [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:open-ils- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Karen Collier > Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2007 12:27 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Importing Bibliographic Information > > 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 > > >
