John, The best way is importing bibliographic records and add items wich need to use proper MARC tags for such. Each bib record is stored on two MYSQL tables. A third table manage items. So the hard work is mapping records from your comercial ILS. Regards, Rafael Citando "Thiesen, John" <jthiesen@bethelks.edu>:
I'm wondering if someone can answer some questions related to the possibility of migrating from a commercial ILS to Koha.
We're exploring our options, and one thing we'd like to try would be to download a couple thousand of our records into Koha and play with it for a while, to see how it fits our workflow here. I've been surprised that there doesn't seem to be much documentation about uploading existing data into Koha (and, actually, I found the over all Koha documentation rather fragmentary). I understand in a general way how the bib records would work, but how does Koha deal with holdings/item records--i.e. barcodes, multi-volume works, multiple copies of the same work, etc.
John D. Thiesen
Co-director of Libraries
Bethel College
North Newton, KS