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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><pre>Randy,<o:p></o:p></pre><pre><o:p> </o:p></pre><pre>I’m hoping to move a small school library from Follett to Koha on a Fedora 12 system. The responses to the thread so far are enlightening. I’ve gotten pretty far from just lurking and searching the archives and various install docs and wikis. Along the way I have learned quite a lot of about sed and perl to adapt a Follett export to an xml file of the biblio data to Koha. I’m almost there but running into problems doing a bulk adding of items. I don’t think I quite have the required framework fully understood. This <a href="http://wiki.koha.org/doku.php?id=here">http://wiki.koha.org/doku.php?id=here</a> helped me get started. I hope to work on the Zebra search capacity. I’m running into problems getting it to run as a daemon. Fedora implements daemons a bit different from Debian and that is a new level I have to understand.<o:p></o:p></pre><pre><o:p> </o:p></pre><pre>I’ve installed MARCedit under wine, but haven’t really been able to devote time to effectively using that to migrate our data.<o:p></o:p></pre><pre><o:p> </o:p></pre><pre>I will look into the Follett ODBC drivers that were suggested since I am very familiar with Access and that will help me work with the circulation and patron info.<o:p></o:p></pre><pre><o:p> </o:p></pre><pre>I’m a self-taught linux guy, learned mainly by doing and installing a Linux Terminal Server Project system at a small private school. This <a href="http://www.kohadocs.org/koha_diary.html">http://www.kohadocs.org/koha_diary.html</a> really helped me understand the whole process of implementing an ILS and gave me courage to stark checking it out with the goal to free us from a yearly contract and an outmoded system.<o:p></o:p></pre><pre><o:p> </o:p></pre><pre>My next step is to begin a brand new install on a Debian system and use git to keep current. I hope to document this step by step.<o:p></o:p></pre><pre><o:p> </o:p></pre><pre>Lastly, I’m still trying to get a picture of the meta-issues/conflicts of the Koha project as represented by the koha.org and koha-community.org split.<o:p></o:p></pre><pre><o:p> </o:p></pre><pre>Good luck.<o:p></o:p></pre><pre><o:p> </o:p></pre><pre>Marion J. Makarewicz<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>Visitation Inter-Parish School<o:p></o:p></pre><pre><o:p> </o:p></pre><pre><o:p> </o:p></pre><pre><o:p> </o:p></pre><pre>>I am trying to help a library with a Follett ILS migrate to Koha. Can <o:p></o:p></pre><pre>>anyone steer me to info, queries or scripts to help migrate?<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>>MARC?<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>>Patrons?<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>>:Transactions?<o:p></o:p></pre><pre><o:p> </o:p></pre><pre>>-- <o:p></o:p></pre><pre>>Randy Catlin<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>>Beaver Crossing Community Library<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>>402.532.3535<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>><a href="http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha">rcatlin at windstream.net</a><o:p></o:p></pre><pre><o:p> </o:p></pre><pre><o:p> </o:p></pre><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>