[Koha] No dewey numbers migrating from Follett

[Steven F. Baljkas]

Wednesday, June 9, 2004    00:20 CDT

Hi, Mike,

Have you tried checking out Stephen Hedges' excellent resource on migration to Koha at
URL http://www.skemotah.com/Migrating_to_Koha.html  ? Perhaps the answer has been given there?

The info I have on Follett (from Cibbarelli's Directory of Library Automation Software, Systems, and Services, 2000-2001 ed.) indicates that Alliance Plus, Catalog Plus and Circulation Plus all afford full-MARC export. Have you tried/Can you try exporting full-MARC records first? 

Wasn't the question on getting the Dewey information into the right field for display answered recently? Maybe you could check the archives searching messages with the subject "Koha questions on MARC setup" where Harvey Lee, Stephen Hedges and Paul Poulain fielded some issues. Perhaps your solution will lie therein, Mike.

Let us all know how this works out, as many libraries do use Follett products and this could have significant impact for Koha.

Cheers,
Steven F. Baljkas
library tech at large
Koha neophyte
Winnipeg, MB, Canada

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "mike re-v" <mrmrmr50 at yahoo.com>
To: <koha at lists.katipo.co.nz>
Sent: Tuesday, June 08, 2004 5:36 PM
Subject: [Koha] No dewey numbers migrating from Follett


> What is the best way to get the Dewey numbers to
> appear in teh koha data base when migating from
> Follett
> The follett I think are imported on using MARC21 852
> holdings
> There are no 852 tags on the export MICROLIF from
> follett. There are 082 tags ,900 and 949 tags which
> have dewey numbers
> I've tried to copy the 082 koha tag info into tags
> 900,949 using the add a tag function under koha
> parameters marc.
> No dewey appears
> thanks
> re-v


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