[Koha] Koha in school library

[Scott Owen]

Deb,

Depending how big your collection is.....it might be easier in the long run
(believe it or not) to just start from scratch.
(bit of a learning curve, but once you "get it" ...it's all downhill)

In the long run, this gives you an accurate inventory, up to date MARC
records, and requires you to lay hands on every book so you can weed out
the bent/broken/damaged.

If you have the time, doing a small collection (ie: < 4,000 or so) is
completely doable.
(work on small pieces at a time -- ie; one shelf a day...)


Otherwise, matching fields in the excel spreadsheet to the required Koha
fields is covered fairly well :

http://manual.koha-community.org/3.2/en/marceditexcel.html

http://koha.1045719.n5.nabble.com/data-migration-from-excel-to-koha-td3062109.html


Good luck !

-S









On Mon, Apr 18, 2016 at 8:02 AM, Deb Vincent <library at tggsacademy.org>
wrote:

> Hi all
> I have cancelled my existing ILS to switch to Koha in our school library.
> Unfortunately I had to give a year's notice to terminate the contract, but
> on the plus side it gives me more time to set up Koha properly before
> making the switch.
> So far, our IT team have set up Koha on the server, and I have been able to
> load existing students to the system.
> My main difficulty is going to be importing our existing catalogue. I can
> export the basic data from our current ILS in an Excel spreadsheet, but not
> marc format. I know I can convert from Excel to marc21 using MarcEdit, but
> I am not yet familiar enough with the marc system to understand how to do
> this. I would be very grateful for any advice.
> Also, is there any way of importing barcodes of existing holdings at the
> same time, or does this have to be done manually after the catalogue
> records have been imported?
> Many thanks.
>
>
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