[Koha] Koha Experimentation

[Franklin Escano]

Hi Wesley,
A couple of questions-What ILS does your library is
currently using? What is the back-end database?
These questions should help us with your migration
issues.

Frank



--- Kyle Hall <kyle.m.hall at gmail.com> wrote:

> Wesley,
>   Over the last year, I've been working on migrating
> the Crawford County
> Federated Library system over to Koha from
> Winnebago. Stephen is dead on
> when he says that each ILS needs custom programming
> to import patron data
> into Koha. I've put my migration scripts in
> koha-tools (
> koha-tools.sourceforge.net ). You can check them out
> to get an idea of what
> needs to happen. What ILS is your college using at
> the moment?
> 
> Kyle
> 
> On 3/19/07, Stephen Hedges <st.hedges at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > Wesley, you might want to look at the "Migration
> Notes" on the Koha
> > wiki (http://wiki.koha.org/doku.php), also look at
> kohadocs.org.
> > You'll find that there is no easy way to migrate
> patron data because
> > there is no standard way to store patron data;
> every proprietary
> > system does it a little differently. That's one
> big difference between
> > Koha and a commercial ILS. If you buy a new
> commercial ILS, the vendor
> > handles the nasty migration work. With Koha, you
> either do it yourself
> > or contract with someone like LibLime to help.
> >
> > Stephen H.
> >
> > On 3/19/07, Wesley Hague <wesleyhague at hotmail.com>
> wrote:
> > > Okay I'm a student of a small College and I'm
> being hired as a side job
> > to
> > > see just how pratical Koha is for their Library.
> After some
> > experimentation
> > > this has left me with several questions at how
> to do certain tasks. My
> > > skills with some stuff are decent but this is
> still a massive learning
> > curve
> > > for me. I've set up Koha on a Windows XP Machine
> > >
> > > 1. Deleting records? I've got hundred or so
> records at the moment which
> > were
> > > created for testing purpose and have no actual
> book behind them. Is
> > there
> > > anyway and deleting the entire database and
> starting fresh without
> > having to
> > > delete every single record, one by one.
> > >
> > > 2. Bulk import of users. The Old Library
> software has alot of users on
> > it.
> > > While I have found that the book records can be
> transfer with MARC
> > fairly
> > > easily with little to no problem. Is their any
> way to transfer Patrons
> > over.
> > >
> > > 3. Creating Patrons, when I creating patrons to
> test out. Koha forces me
> > to
> > > set the patron as Either a Child or an
> Institution, which alters the
> > user
> > > information I have already enter. Can it be set
> or change so these do
> > not
> > > have to be set?
> > >
> > >
> > >
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> 
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