Eric- I have worked on some migrations of Library World data to Koha. If you are comfortable working with MARC records and editing them you will be able to import them into Koha using the staff interface. You will need to know how Koha structures its holdings in the 952 and how you can convert the Library World holding tag/subfield data into the 952 subfields. Depending on the quality of your data the "map" from LW to Koha can be simple or complex. The migration time is also a time to consider data cleanups. (example: "we've always used x itemtype, but we would now like to use y itemtype for items with xwy callnumber".)
Beyond that, it's a matter of what else you wish to migrate: patrons, circulation, fines, reserves, historical data. Most (except patrons) of that data will need to be imported directly into the database in some fashion (i.e. access to the server and familiarity with SQL and/or Perl). I'll let others speak to what role consultants play as I'm a tad biased in that area! Joy Nelson Director of Migrations ByWater Solutions ________________________________ From: Eric Rosen <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Cc: Alyson Barrett-Ryan <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, March 6, 2013 2:23 PM Subject: [Koha] Migration from LibraryWorld to Koha I work at the a small psychiatry library with less than 11,000 records in our current catalog, LibraryWorld. We are in the process of planning to implement Koha and was wondering if anyone in the Koha Community has performed a similar migration of records from LibraryWorld; any thoughts on the workflow, work breakdown structure or other issues that came up during the migration of records would of great interest to us in planning our transition, as well as what role consultants (e.g. Bywater) played in expediting the process. -- Eric Rosen, MLIS Senior Library Assistant San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis Erik H. Erikson Library 444 Natoma Street San Francisco, CA 94103 (415) 563-4477 x106/ [email protected] _______________________________________________ Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org [email protected] http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha _______________________________________________ Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org [email protected] http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha
