Fiji, Link below are my reference during the time we migrated our system Athena to KOHA, http://library.bridgton.lib.me.us/BPL_mediawiki/index.php/Exporting_Athena_H... and http://nemla.musiclibraryassoc.org/presentations/GoodByeAthenaHelloKoha.pdf We just recently successfully migrated our Integrated Library System to KOHA. Based on our experienced, when we were just starting the most difficult part is, when we migrated our records to KOHA. By manipulating MARC records of Athena to KOHA, due to we don't have yet any background about MarcEdit. But now we can do it with our eyes closed. Upon studying, researching and asking couple of people, I was lucky that I was able to met my mentor Eugene Espinoza here in KOHA Community, that he help me through out our migration. I encourage you to use MarcEdit version 5.9, specially for those records that has multiple items. I am glad that you showed interested in KOHA the best open source there is! Provided link http://library.southville.edu.ph/ is our product of Athena to KOHA. Regards, On Mon, Jun 23, 2014 at 9:51 AM, Manny Tamayao <manny_tamayao@sil.org> wrote:
Good day Fiji,
We did it two years ago. From Athena, you can export your marc data from Cataloging>Export MARC Records>select range "Barcode", put a filename then choose where to save your data and finally I do suggest choose "Export as multiple MARC records".
You can use MarcEdit http://marcedit.reeset.net/ to clean and map your MARC data in preparation for import in Koha (e.g. 852 to 952, adding your homebranch, etc..). It would be easier if you have a librarian or someone with you who understand MARC.
Hope it helps, Manny
Message: 2 Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2014 05:13:17 +0000 From: Gyaneshwar Narayan <gyaneshwar.narayan@usp.ac.fj> To: "koha@lists.katipo.co.nz" <koha@lists.katipo.co.nz> Subject: [Koha] Athena to Koha Message-ID: <488B8BBDFE95BB428ECE31177AF0901F47256E15@suvxch10mb1.usp.ac.fj> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
Good afternoon from Fiji
May I ask if anyone has done a migration from Athena 9.2 to the Koha??? If yes, then is there a documentation of the steps used??? Also, is there a PDF or webpage I can view to help me in doing cosmetic changes to the Koha site and the OPAC??? In addition, is there a list of all the features of Koha??? Sorry about asking so many questions but could anyone help please.
Regards.
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