[Koha] Hi from a total Koha beginner

[Gianfranco Nicola]

Hello everybody,

I have just subscribed the list, so let me say a little about me.

My name is Gianfranco; I live in Torino, Italy. I am an IT Professional 
- a developer for a big software and IT consultants company, since 1996.

In the spare time I work as a volounteer at the Museo Ferroviario 
Piemontese (Piedmont Railways Museum), and of course I manage all the IT 
infrastructure of the museum.  At MFP we are all volounteers, there are 
no employees.

I came across Koha and this mailing list while i was searching for a 
replacement for our library software, which runs on a very old PC, that 
is about to stop working; since we cannot reinstall our legacy software 
anymore (the setup disks are lost, and the manufacturer has gone), we 
need a new program.

So I found Koha, and I am evaluating it to understand  if it can fit our 
needs - before developing a new application from scratch myself, which I 
would prefer to avoid (no time and no will... ) if possible.

Installing Koha was a piece of cake - in a couple of hours or so i had a 
test instance up and running with no trouble. I tried to enter a test 
book from my home library, and everything was fine. But now I am trying 
to figure out how to import data from our legacy software, and how to 
teach our  library guy to use this new program, bearing in mind that 
neither him, nor me, are librarians.

Actually I am as confused as possible, so I am going to ask your help 
and guidance in deploying the production environment. Moreover, I am a 
bit in a hurry, because I don't know how much our old PC will still be 
working.

I searched the Internet and this list for the past ten days, but I found 
no answer for my questions (for sure, most of them are due to I haven't 
no skill about libraries and librarians). In a next message I will post 
some of my major questions; I hope someone will help me.

Many thanks in advance and best regards,

Gianfranco Nicola
Museo Ferroviario Piemontese



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