We have migrated several libraries into our Koha consortia from the old Follett Circulation Plus software over the last five years. The biggest helper was purchasing the ODBC Driver from Follett (I believe it's still available, if your paid support contract is current). That software allowed us to read the proprietary Follett data files and import them all into an Access database and then export out into Excel and turn over to our migration support. We've worked with different support vendors over the last five years and the migrations all went smoothly. There are a lot of fields and it can get tricky keeping them straight, but it's definitely doable to migrate from Follett to Koha. Heather Braum Digital and Technical Services Librarian Northeast Kansas Library System hbraum@nekls.org 4317 W. 6th St. Lawrence, KS 66049 Office: (785) 838-4090 Fax: (785) 838-3989 http://www.nekls.org/ | http://www.nexpresslibrary.org/ "My guess is (it will be) about 300 years until computers are as good as, say, your local reference library in search." ~Craig Silverstein, director of technology, Google.com "The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn." ~Alvin Toffler, *Rethinking the Future* On Mon, Mar 25, 2013 at 4:59 AM, Jolanta Kaun <jkaun@lcc.lt> wrote:

Hi,

We have migrated from Follett to Koha (DOS version) in 2008. Liblime (now PTFS) company was hired for a job. The process was quick and smooth! We had to dump all data from Follett and instruct how to move it from field to field. When it was moved, during a trial period we have changed a few details yet. But nothing got lost. It was very well done! Did not take a month... I guess, it is a simple process for a specialist to rearrange the data. If you could afford that, I would recommend hiring a company.

Wishes,

Jolanta Kaun LCC Library/biblioteka

-----Original Message----- From: koha-bounces@lists.katipo.co.nz [mailto: koha-bounces@lists.katipo.co.nz] On Behalf Of Hager Braham Sent: Monday, March 25, 2013 9:38 To: koha@lists.katipo.co.nz Subject: [Koha] Follett to Koha 3 Migration

Hi,

I am looking for information in order to make a decision about our a new library system.

I saw you were migrating from Follet to Koha. How was it the data transfer ? Which is Follet's product you want to change for Koha ?

I am really interested to know it works now with you.

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