Copy cataloguing through Z39.50 is one of the most powerful Koha features. It runs parallel queries on one or more Z39.50 servers at your choice.
See the process in 4 pictures (in Italian, sorry) [1] or in the Koha manual [2].
HTH. Stefano

[1] <https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=452348601517078&set=a.452348588183746.1073741830.419787368106535&type=3&theater>
[2] <http://manual.koha-community.org/3.12/en/cataloging.html#addbibrec>

On 08/giu/2013, at 14.20, Sweet, Charles Eugene wrote:

> Try the Z39.50 search in the Cataloguing module - often a title and author search will find a useful record (you can add other Z39.50 sources to the ones provided) and will overlay the record you have open.  So I just open a blank record and run the search.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Code for Libraries [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Gary McGath
> Sent: Saturday, June 08, 2013 8:10 AM
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> Subject: [CODE4LIB] Setting up Koha for a volunteer library
> 
> An non-profit club I'm associated with is looking into using Koha to
> catalogue its in-house circulating library of several thousand books.
> Right now there's no catalogue, and the circulation system is a paper
> sign-out book. As the resident library techie, I figure I should help
> somehow, though my experience isn't with ILSs or OPACs.
> 
> The obvious first question is how to get all those books into the system
> using volunteer labor. Koha imports MARC records. A barcode scanner to
> get ISBNs is an obvious start, but possibly half the books are pre-ISBN,
> so they'll have to be entered by hand. The Worldcat API
> (http://xisbn.worldcat.org/xisbnadmin/doc/api.htm#getmetadata) looks
> like the thing for getting metadata from the ISBN, and turning the XML
> into MARC won't be hard.
> 
> I'm willing to write some code to help them along, but to the extent
> that there are free tools that work, it makes sense to do them. Can
> anyone with similar experience offer suggestions?
> 
> -- 
> Gary McGath, Professional Software Developer
> http://www.garymcgath.com
>