Our school district is migrating from TLC to KOHA 3.0. The migration team has a few questions as we start this process. We are using Fedora on the server. Our questions: 1. What information should be set up before importing our records? 2. What special considerations do we need to be aware of when importing the records? 3. When we look at the MARC records that we have exported the branch (schools for us) includes a letter designation after the school number : i.e.: 416 NF, 416 FIC, 416 REF, 416 PRF all the books are at one school. Do we need to set each set as a separate branch or will KOHA just read the 416 as the branch? We have 200 schools to set up as branches and if we have to divide each school into 5 or 6 branches, the typing and set up can be overwhelming. Schools open in about a week and we need to be up and running. I have learnt so much from the this listserv just reading the questions and answers from other members. Thank you Sheila Grap Specialist Library/Media Room 303 200 E. North Ave Baltimore, MD 21202
While I don't have answers to all of your questions, there is an 'Implementation Checklist' in the appendices of the manual: http://sites.google.com/a/liblime.com/koha-manual/ This may help you with some of your questions. Others I will leave to the rest of the community :) --- Nicole C. Engard Open Source Evangelist, LibLime (888) Koha ILS (564-2457) ext. 714 nce@liblime.com AIM/Y!/Skype: nengard http://liblime.com http://blogs.liblime.com/open-sesame/ On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 9:17 AM, Grap, Sheila <SGrap@bcps.k12.md.us> wrote:
Our school district is migrating from TLC to KOHA 3.0. The migration team has a few questions as we start this process. We are using Fedora on the server.
Our questions: 1. What information should be set up before importing our records? 2. What special considerations do we need to be aware of when importing the records? 3. When we look at the MARC records that we have exported the branch (schools for us) includes a letter designation after the school number : i.e.: 416 NF, 416 FIC, 416 REF, 416 PRF all the books are at one school. Do we need to set each set as a separate branch or will KOHA just read the 416 as the branch? We have 200 schools to set up as branches and if we have to divide each school into 5 or 6 branches, the typing and set up can be overwhelming. Schools open in about a week and we need to be up and running.
I have learnt so much from the this listserv just reading the questions and answers from other members.
Thank you
Sheila Grap Specialist Library/Media Room 303 200 E. North Ave Baltimore, MD 21202
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I suspect you are doing this on your own without any support help... good luck for one week! Yikes. 1 - all of your codes need to be entered and you need to talk about how you are going to do holds. 2 - Holds are important and school displays are important when dealing with if you are going to setup independant branches or not. 3 - is the 416 in the collection code or actually part of the call number? When you export the data out of your TLC system you need to see if you can put your location/branch/school code in a seperate subfield to import into Koha. I suspect you have figured out a way to export the data and item information to a 952 tag already or what are your item information stored in? have you done a small test load? I too will be going through this soon I suspect but we will be doing the switch over in January with the help of LibLime. David Schuster Plano ISD Plano Texas - we only have 67 schools! Grap, Sheila wrote:
Our school district is migrating from TLC to KOHA 3.0. The migration team has a few questions as we start this process. We are using Fedora on the server.
Our questions: 1. What information should be set up before importing our records? 2. What special considerations do we need to be aware of when importing the records? 3. When we look at the MARC records that we have exported the branch (schools for us) includes a letter designation after the school number : i.e.: 416 NF, 416 FIC, 416 REF, 416 PRF all the books are at one school. Do we need to set each set as a separate branch or will KOHA just read the 416 as the branch? We have 200 schools to set up as branches and if we have to divide each school into 5 or 6 branches, the typing and set up can be overwhelming. Schools open in about a week and we need to be up and running.
I have learnt so much from the this listserv just reading the questions and answers from other members.
Thank you
Sheila Grap Specialist Library/Media Room 303 200 E. North Ave Baltimore, MD 21202
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