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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 > To: [log in to unmask] > 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 >