importing marcXML

[Robby Stephenson]

Hi,

On Thursday 19 October 2006 6:05, henna wrote:
> is there an easy way to import MarcXMLfiles? I can get the marcXML
> files for my books from the libraries search system but can't seem to
> automate the search on the search system :(

It might not qualify as easy, but there is a way. Internally, Tellico 
actually uses marcxml when doing z39.50 searches, and converts it to it own 
internal format.

There are two XSL stylesheets distributed with Tellico, MARC21slim2MODS3.xsl 
and UNIMARC2MODS3.xsl. They convert from MARC21 and UniMARC, respectively, 
to MODS. Then, that resulting output is converted to Tellico XML using the 
mods2tellico.xsl file.

So to convert your file, you'd need to run it through two stylesheets. 
The "Import XSL Tranform" menu command will only use one, so it won't do 
the job.

Incidently, your library system doesn't offer a z39.50 interface or MODS 
export?

Robby