Overview
The following procedure will walk you through importing any MARC file. You can obtain a MARC file from any bibliographic provider.
The following instructions assume you have already visited the bibliographic information provider and entered in the ISBN you wish to download information for. If you are unsure how to obtain an order file of your MARC records from your provider, please contact your provider.
Once you have your MARC file, perform the following steps to import it:
Save the *.dat file which you have downloaded from your external source to the local computer.
Importing a USMARC file
1. Log in, click on the menu button and select 'Catalogue'. Then select 'MARC File Import'.
2. Click the BROWSE/CHOOSE FILE button.
3. Once you have selected your file to import you will need to set the settings. To understand the settings see below:
These options below allow you to select what the import does to existing records.
4. Once you have set your settings, you can import the records by clicking on the Import button.
The import can take several minutes depending on how many records are in your file. During this import, time do not close or refresh the page. Once all records are imported the system will notify you it will look like this.
