Hi Sean, A little advice on moving your records from your current system to Koha. I have not worked with the Innovative system so cannot speak to details, but there should be some way to export records in MARC format. These records won't be in perfect Koha format, but the basic fields should match up correctly. The devil is in the details though, and the way that the item info including item type, bar code, and other item specific info probably won't be in the right place. You can download MarcEdit (created by Terry Reese at Oregon State) to break a MARC encoded file into a human readable format, and it also has tools to make changes to files. Koha stores item specific info in the 952 field, so the challenge I faced during our migration was getting all the item info moved into the correct place in the record. MarcEdit can create a VB script that you can then modify to do the changes you need. Koha has tools to do the importing, you will find them in the staff client under Tools. There is also a perl script to do the importing (bulkmarcimport.pl if memory serves me) that can be used from the command line. I would suggest you see if you can do an export of some of your data from your current system in MARC format, then break the file using the MarcEdit tool into human readable format a take a look. As a test you can copy and paste a record into a new file, edit it manually, use the MarcMaker function in MarcEdit to put it back into the correct format and do the import into Koha to get a feel for the process. Good luck with your project. Doug
spark <spark@cclsd.org> 4/2/2009 10:41 AM >>> Hello all, We are a consortium (8 public, 3 academic libraries) in Oregon currently running an Innovative ILS (since '91). We are exploring open source ILS
options, with Koha 3.0 running on a test system. Does anyone know of any contacts who might be versed in Innovative and willing to counsel a fledgling Koha user regarding some pointed cataloging questions? Would anyone have advice on exporting Innovative records and importing them into Koha (we'd like to import a small sampling to simulate our production system, looking to Liblime for full system migration when/if the time comes)? This is a tall order! Thank you in advance for any help you can offer. - Sean, Coos County Libraries _______________________________________________ Koha mailing list Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha