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<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>We’re setting up a small “consortium”
of NGO/non-profit libraries, using a single Koha installation. Some of them
use Dewey, some don’t.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Settings for multiple classification
schemes --<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>In Home | Admin | SysPrefs | Cataloguing –
itemcallnumber: I suppose Dewey collections would assign 082, but non-Dewey
852? What setting to use when multiple schemes exist?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Catalogue Migration: Is there any
documentation on how to do this, in addition to the brief descriptions in the Koha
manual?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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mso-list:l2 level1 lfo3'><![if !supportLists]><span lang=EN-US
style='font-family:Wingdings'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>Ĝ<span
style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span
lang=EN-US>We’re moving from proprietary-format Microsoft Access to MARC-format
Koha. Freeware utilities to make this possible? I’m not sure MarcEdit is
quite there yet, maybe with next release?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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mso-list:l2 level1 lfo3'><![if !supportLists]><span lang=EN-US
style='font-family:Wingdings'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>Ĝ<span
style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span
lang=EN-US>Cleaning up the data. We’d like to run Z39.50 searches on our
items once in Koha, but won’t this delete important MARC data 9xx, like
barcode / itemcallnumber / etc.? What if we used proprietary keywords, notes,
categories that we want to keep? Does the native Koha Z39.50 search remove all
this?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style='font-family:Wingdings'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>Ĝ<span
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lang=EN-US>Does anyone ever use a utility to access the (Zebra?) data directly,
rather than via the Koha front end? Couldn’t I cleanup data more quickly
using a model like Microsoft Access attached tables? Is Zebra a relational
database?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style='font-family:Wingdings'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>Ĝ<span
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lang=EN-US>Do I want to consider XML format as an intermediary between MARC and
Access? I don’t know anything about XML format.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Any further documentation on migration of
Circulation, Authorities? I did manage to import Patrons with the Koha
interface!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Thanks very much,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Nelson Fredsell<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Cape Town, South Africa<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><a href="http://www.cfce.org.za">www.cfce.org.za</a>
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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