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Monday Minutes: BTCat Integration with Koha
by Kelly McElligott on Apr 29, 2024
In this week's Monday Minutes, Kelly and Jessie are joined with Travis Kelley
Manager, Strategic Partnerships with BTCat & CLS and Lori Thorrat Cataloging and Processing Manager at Cuyahoga County Library to discuss and show off the BTCat Integration with Koha.
BTCat and the Integration with Koha
Baker & Taylor Cataloging - is a state-of-the-art library cataloging utility and database. BTCat was created to be an efficient production environment for the cataloging team
Once a record has been found in BTCat and is ready to be sent, it can be directly sent to the library's Koha system.
From the Koha side:
For Koha users, the BTCat Integration will allow a seamless integration from retrieving records from BTCat and bringing them right over to Koha through an API. The MARC field 935 is used for matching and once the record is sent to Koha through the API, a success screen will display with the record number.
Once a record has been sent from BTCat, this will be updated in Koha. For the example Lori provided, she was merging records and updating her current Koha record with a new, more robust record.
Through the Modification Log, Lori could see the record was updated via the API, and the update details are included in the log.
For our partner libraries, already using BTCat and would like to set up this integration? Please submit a ticket and we can work with you!
BTCat Contact
If you are interested in talking to Travis about this product, here is his contact information:
Travis Kelley
Manager, Strategic Partnerships: BTCat & CLS
email: Travis.Kelley@baker-taylor.com
More to Come!!!
This summer we will be having a full webinar on this integration! So look out for this announcement!
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