Dear Stephanie,

I use KOHA in my library.  It was chosen as the ILS of choice by the person who 
initially set this library up.  I came in with very little experience in the 
back end management of ILS and, without having someone around who is tech savvy 
and has an understanding of SQL, I found it hard going.  The choice of Koha was 
made because it is “free” and open source.  The time I spent trying to make 
sense of the online documentation and learning my way around to manage the 
rudiments probably was worth the price of a consultant.

ByWater Solutions is a company devoted to supporting Koha and Koha in 
libraries.  I assume, however, that you are as budget constrained as many of us 
in small libraries, and that would not be an option.  They do have a “Koha 
Education” tab on their website with useful, if limited, information.

Have you contacted Library Thing directly regarding downloading your current 
records?  I have dealt with them too, in another context, and found them to be 
very helpful.

Good luck,
Cecile

Cecile E. Shmookler, MA, MLS
Librarian, Department of Jewish Thought
College of Arts and Sciences
University at Buffalo
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From: Hasafran [mailto:hasafran-boun...@lists.osu.edu] On Behalf Of Anahé 
Morales
Sent: Tuesday, January 17, 2017 8:43 AM
To: Stephanie Krasner <stephkra...@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [ha-Safran] Online Catalogs

Hello Ms. Stephanie

You could use open source library software like KOHA 
https://koha-community.org/, you can find it online and customized as you wish, 
if you are already using a library software you have to make sure this software 
exports your database into excel lists so you can upload it to Koha and put 
your catalog online.
Hope this helps.


Mgter. Anahé Morales Touron
Biblioteca Teofilo y Margot Hafeitz
INSTITUTO ALBERTO EINSTEIN
Telf.: 2702266 ext.: 180

2017-01-16 22:05 GMT-05:00 Stephanie Krasner 
<stephkra...@gmail.com<mailto:stephkra...@gmail.com>>:
I have been trying to find a good low cost way to put my collection online. If 
anyone is using Librarything please send me your comments. Do you think an 
online catalog would increase library usage? Does anyone know how to export 
data from my current Surpass system to an online application?

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