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[Koha-devel] Re: [Koha] Follett to Koha 2.2.9 migration help
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Mason James |
Subject: |
[Koha-devel] Re: [Koha] Follett to Koha 2.2.9 migration help |
Date: |
Mon, 10 Mar 2008 15:50:17 +1300 |
On 2008/03/8, at 5:24 AM, Darren De Zeeuw wrote:
I am the volunteer IT guy for a small private school. We have been
using
Follett's Circ Plus/Cat Plus software for many years, but their
upgrade path
is too expensive and our old Mac OS 9 machine running the software
in the
library had a disk failure. It's time to find another solution.
Koha seems
to be the perfect fit for us, but I need to show that it's better
than what
we have in order to get approval.
Hi Darren,
Recently at LIblime, we did some conversions from Follet systems to
Koha.
I have a MICROLIF file with around 8000 records
exported from our Follett catalog. I ran the bulkmarcimport.pl
script and
it brought most of the data over as far as I can see (I'm not a
librarian),
but seems to be missing our bar-coding information at least. I'm also
unsure if I can migrate over our patron list as well.
The missing item info you are describing is because Follet's MICROLIF
marc records store their item-info in the 852 fields ( from memory... )
(Every ILS vendor have their little quirks about where they stuff the
item-level info, Follets looks to be in 852
What is needed is a small script to fetch those Follet 852 item-
values and move them to their corresponding Koha 952 fields, then
write those corrected records out to a new file.
Run Bulkmarcimport.pl on this new file, and you will successfully
pick up those missing item-level values in your Koha marc import.
FYI: when i get some time, I plan to add to the koha-wiki some
general code examples of this mapping process I described.
I hope that helps,
Cheers, Mason.
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