[Evergreen-catalogers] Importing Bib Records/Authorities through MARC Batch Import/Export: File type question (.db, .dat?)

[Galen Charlton]

Hi,

On Fri, Apr 19, 2013 at 1:58 PM, Kent, Alexander D
<alexander.kent at mnsu.edu>wrote:

>  Is this a bug? Is Evergreen not able to import .db files from OCLC
> Connexion?   Has anyone else run into this?  Am I doing something wrong
> here, maybe in how I’m exporting from OCLC Connexion?
>

The Connexion .db file is a Microsoft Jet database, which I gather
Connexion can use to save records for its internal purposes.  Evergreen
needs the actual MARC records, i.e., the .dat files you had also tested
with.

Upshot: Connexion users should use export, not save, to prepare a file for
loading into Evergreen.  There is also the option of using the MARC stream
importer to "push" records directly into Evergreen.

By the way, if one has a large file that's relevant for a question, I
recommend linking to it rather than attaching it to emails destined for a
mailing list.

Regards,

Galen
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