[Koha] Migrating to Koha

[David Schuster]

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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