Follett to Koha 2.2.9 migration help
I am the volunteer IT guy for a small private school. We have been using Follett's Circ Plus/Cat Plus software for many years, but their upgrade path is too expensive and our old Mac OS 9 machine running the software in the library had a disk failure. It's time to find another solution. Koha seems to be the perfect fit for us, but I need to show that it's better than what we have in order to get approval. I've been reading what I can find in the list archive about migrating to Koha from Follett. Many topics are years old and probably specific to whatever the current Koha version was. Does anyone have experience with this migration recently? I've been able to install Koha 2.2.9 and all it's prerequisites on my MacBook Pro (Mac OS 10.5) as a test by combining multiple online help pages. I have a MICROLIF file with around 8000 records exported from our Follett catalog. I ran the bulkmarcimport.pl script and it brought most of the data over as far as I can see (I'm not a librarian), but seems to be missing our bar-coding information at least. I'm also unsure if I can migrate over our patron list as well. Any personal experience or relevant online hints would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Darren.
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Darren De Zeeuw