Hi Nancy,
I took a look through our migration history and we migrated a library
from Library World to Evergreen back in 2010 so it has been done and I
didn't see anything in our notes about major roadblocks.
Jennifer
Quoting "Jackson, Robert" <[email protected]>:
An additional option would be to set up a shared session with the
library to perform a pre-migration data pull. If you can schedule
time with the person(s) in the know regarding the current tool then
you may be able to wade thru the interface together. Since you have
performed other migrations you will know the data requirements for a
successful migration and the staff on site will know the modules
involved along with any passwords required!
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Robert J. Jackson
Systems Administrator Int.
Indiana State Library
http://library.in.gov<http://library.in.gov/>
315 W Ohio St
Indianapolis, IN 46202
(317) 234-7317
[email protected]
From: Open-ils-general
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Behalf Of Rogan Hamby
Sent: Wednesday, May 20, 2015 10:22 AM
To: Evergreen Discussion Group
Subject: Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Migration to Evergreen from "Library World"
As Blake said it depends on what they can give you and in what
formats. For example, if they won't give extracts and all you can
do is run reports on circulation but the reports lack crucial data
and can't be connected to patrons .... it'll be a mess.
When an ILS install is not facilitated by a vendor there are
sometimes work arounds if you have physical access to the database
but if I understand how LW works that's not an option. I have a
long rant about signing agreements for cloud hosting data without
contractual rights to your data but that's for another day.
Short version,
Step 1) Find out if LW will extract the data in a way that
facilitates migrating it. Connection points between data (like
being able in the extract to say Circulation X is Patron Y's) is
really important here, as well as completeness of records.
Step 2) If they're not helpful you can start seeing what the library
can pull out via whatever tools they were given. This gets into
finger crossing and prayers.
Step 3) Beg? Law suit? Pay hostage fees to have data freed? I've
seen all three of these happen.
On Wed, May 20, 2015 at 10:12 AM, Blake Henderson
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Nancy,
We have migrated many different ILS's. We have not encountered
Library World. We have migrated data from some strange ILS's. It
looks like in this case, Library World warehouses the data. It boils
down to reports. Will this ILS create Excel files of patron
data/checkouts/fines? Can you extract MARC records? How much stuff
can you extract with it's reporting engine in general? When we
encounter a system that does not give us what we need, we have had
success speaking with a support representative.
-Blake-
Conducting Magic
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877-312-3517<tel:877-312-3517>
On 5/19/2015 8:32 PM, Nancy Grant wrote:
Is it possible to migrate to Evergreen from Library World
(www.libraryworld.com<http://www.libraryworld.com>)?
And if so, are there any roadblock to be aware of in doing that migration?
Our consortium has migrated systems to Evergreen from older Follett
and Winnebago systems.
Thanks.
Nancy B. Grant
Maine Balsam Libraries Consortium President
Retired LMS, NBCT
Dover-Foxcroft, Maine
207-564-3098<tel:207-564-3098>
[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>
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