Technical Services Procedures

Ordering and Receiving Materials - Ordering: Downloading GOBI (Yankee) records for firm orders

Page Editor: Don Depoorter
Last Updated: July 12, 2007

In Millennium, please use the following steps for downloading (importing) GOBI records:

1. Go
2. Import Invoices
3. Data Exchange
4. Select process – load bibliographic records from tape or IFTS…
5. Get FTS
6. local host = 206.32.50.201
7. connect – use gobi user name and password  michsu/sp8prE
8. Locate file in remote file list (on the right side)“1880date.mrc”
9. click on chosen record
10. click on get (file will move or appear in local window)
11. Disconnect
12. close FTS window
13. In data exchange window – locate .mrc.lfts file and highlight
14. from icons on top of window – click on PREP
15. In preprocess window – verify date and file name
16. click “start” at the bottom of the screen
17. Preprocess window will show number of input and output records ONLY
18. Close preprocess window
19. in data exchange window you have file “1880date.mrc.lmarc” – highlight
20. select Load G
21. verify record and click on load at the bottom of the screen
22. Stop – write down the number of records, beginning and ending record numbers
23. go to the top and close the window
24. delete previous days information

    Example:
    “18800509.mrc.errlog”
    “18800509.mrc.lfts”
    “18800509.mrc.lmarc”