# How To - Import Books

From the navigation menu select "Administration", "System Maintenance", "Data Import". This will take you to the list of data import commands. From the list select the "Book Import" data import command.

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Use the file upload to select the Excel Spreadsheet contains the list of books that you wish to upload. After you have done this press the "Validate Data" button, this will validate the data before importing it into the system.

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After the data has been validated you will be able to import the data. Make sure all the import steps have been checked and press the "Import Data " button to start the import process. The data import will run in the background and make take some time depending on how much data is being imported.

The import process will not import duplicate books but will display a warning message informing you. These messages will be displayed to you after the data import process has finished.

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When the data import is finished you will be displayed a message informing you how many books have been imported. If there are any warning or errors you will be displayed information about them at this point.
