[Koha] newbie: items from Follet export

[Doug Dearden]

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From: koha-bounces at lists.katipo.co.nz [mailto:koha-bounces at lists.katipo.co.nz] On Behalf Of Nigel Barker
Sent: Wednesday, June 29, 2011 8:41 PM
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Subject: [Koha] newbie: items from Follet export

Dear All,

I am the IT teacher at a very small school. For several years we have
been running debian-edu/skolelinux on our servers and workstations. So
when the librarian (who is a part-time volunteer and doesn't know
anything about library systems) told me the ageing Follet system would
no longer allow her to add books, I naturally turned to Koha. I have a
test instance  running, and I can bulkmarcimport.pl the marc records
exported from Follet.

So here is my question:
Although the marc export from Follet had the "include copy info" box
checked, and I can see the barcodes in the microlif.001 file, the
catalogue on Koha has no items available for any record, and there are
no barcodes showing.
I am hoping someone with Follet migration experience will know what I
have to do.

Thanks!
-- 
nigel
Hiroshima International School
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Hi Nigel,

Follett puts item info in the 852 subfields.  Koha expects item info in the 952 subfields.  MarcEdit can help you migrate the data  (http://people.oregonstate.edu/~reeset/marcedit/html/index.php) .  MarcEdit has the ability to generate a Windows VB script, I took one and modified it to move our item info when we converted, you can find it here: http://contribs.koha.org/revision_view.php?rid=16 .  This is on the liblime site, I'm not sure why we don't have a contribs section on the koha-community site yet.  Anyway, have a look at that, I think it will do the trick.

Best,

Doug