Gord Nickerson

Adding MARC Records to Koha


Now that the laptop is running fine we decide to add some records to our system. We have a number of downloaded MARC records from various sources such as the library of congress, weldon library, in batches of 25, 50, 500, 2000 etc for testing.  All files have an extension of .MRC

To batch load records

Log in to the staff menu (http://localhost/kohaadmin)

1. Select Tools, Stage MARC records for import
2. Click Browse
3. Select a .mrc file
4. Click Upload File
5. Click Stage for Import
6. Click Manage Staged Records
7. Click Import This Batch into the catalog

We first try 2000 records and begin the import into the catalog at 10:11am. This took 40 minutes! Obviously we are not running a fast server but a low-end laptop (2ghz duo core, 3 gig ram).