[OPEN-ILS-DEV] How to add a book(s) and DVDs etc?

[Charlene Woo Ling]

Hi

Thanks for the help.

1)I am trying to use the z39.50 using the services OLUC World Cat and
Voyager loc but when searching I am getting "server error network/server
problem :undefined"
I have tried searching using isbn, author, publisher and I am getting the
same problem. I do have internet connection which I have open and working

2) I have manually entered 2 marc records using the staff client but when I
am searching the web opac it is not pulling up any of my records even though
I am searching by title, author. 
When i am entering in the 650 field for subject and I do the validate the
terms I entered Web Services turned red. I thought I could enter terms that
persons can easily search by.

3) How do I go about manually adding a book cover to the marc record and
other things like a link to a pdf file (showing table of contents), or maybe
a link to a training video that came with it,

Thanks,
Charlene



-----Original Message-----
From: Eric Lesage [mailto:lesagee at iro.umontreal.ca]
Sent: Wednesday, June 11, 2008 6:16 PM
To: Evergreen Development Discussion List
Cc: Charlene Woo Ling
Subject: Re: [OPEN-ILS-DEV] How to add a book(s) and DVDs etc?


On Wed, 11 Jun 2008, Jason Etheridge wrote:

> Keep in mind that the Library of Congress may not have records for all
> the titles in your collection.  At that point, you could either create
> them from scratch, or delve into adding other Z39.50 resources.  If
> you have data for your collection in an electronic format already, say
> as a spreadsheet, you can likely get a programmer on this list to help
> you automate the migration of that data.
>
> In fact, I believe someone has already written such scripts for
> pulling data based on ISBN in batch.

Hi,

Various scripts to get (uncontrolled) MARC data from Amazon, or from LOC 
(or WorldCat), using the command-line or using ISBNs from a ODF sheet:

http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~lesagee/openils/marc/

Unfortunately I haven't had time to properly maintain (or even document) 
them, maybe nothing works anymore.

Also this doesn't do the MARC import in Evergreen.

Good luck,

-- 
Eric Lesage