[Koha] Hello from Vermont

[Joy Nelson]

Welcome Mark! 
I worked on some mandarin data in the past. Let me know if you have any questions

-Joy

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> On Aug 28, 2016, at 5:21 PM, Mark Alexander <marka at pobox.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> I'm a retired software geek, now living in a small town in Vermont
> after many years in Silicon Valley.  I've been using Linux on my own
> computers for 20 years, and have hacked on everything from microkernels
> in assembly language to web apps in Ruby on Rails.
> 
> I also spent a year in NZ as a child and still consider it as my first
> home, and miss it very much, though I've not been back since.  It's
> cool to see such great open source software originating from my old
> homeland.
> 
> Our town library currently uses proprietary software from Mandarin,
> but I've been investigating what it would take to convert to Koha.
> Many libraries here in Vermont are in a consortium that is using Koha
> hosted by a commercial vendor.  But the consortium is closed to
> new members.
> 
> So to see what it would take for us to build our own Koha installation
> from scratch, I installed 16.05 (using git) in an Ubuntu 14.04 virtual
> machine and have started to play around with it.  I've exported our
> catalog (about 22K items) from Mandarin into a MARC dump.  Now I'm
> figuring out what I need to do to import these records and correctly
> set things like the item call number and item type.  I may ask some
> questions later if I get stuck.
> 
> --Mark
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