Batch Loading of Item Records from an Excel Spreadsheet

Gwyneth Duncan, Systems Librarian, Duke University. As our library began moving long runs of serials to remote storage, we faced the need to itemize and barcode all the volumes. We developed a custom service which reads a tab-delimited file (created via Excel) of item information and both adds items to ALEPH and updates an existing holdings record with the corresponding 863/4/5 fields.