Scott Owen <sowen@...> writes:
Deb,
Depending how big your collection is.....it might be easier in the long
(believe it or not) to just start from scratch. (bit of a learning curve, but once you "get it" ...it's all downhill)
In the long run, this gives you an accurate inventory, up to date MARC records, and requires you to lay hands on every book so you can weed out the bent/broken/damaged.
If you have the time, doing a small collection (ie: < 4,000 or so) is completely doable. (work on small pieces at a time -- ie; one shelf a day...)
Otherwise, matching fields in the excel spreadsheet to the required Koha fields is covered fairly well :
http://manual.koha-community.org/3.2/en/marceditexcel.html
http://koha.1045719.n5.nabble.com/data-migration-from-excel-to-koha-
run td3062109.html
Good luck !
-S
Hi Scott Much as I like the idea of starting from scratch, I don't have a lot of time. Library staffing has been cut back to just me, for 3 hours a day. Not enough time to run the library as I would like to, let alone switch to a new ILS, but as my budget has also been cut, I don't have a lot of choice. However, my current ILS is a bit of a dinosaur, and I like the idea of Koha being maintained and developed by the community, so maybe I needed the push. I will have a look at the links you provided. Many thanks. Deb