[Koha-devel] Re: [Koha] Follett to Koha 2.2.9 migration help

[Michael Hafen]

I have written and integrated a script for Koha 2.2.5, and submitted a
patch to patches at koha.org which will read a microlif file, and pull
certain information, like the barcode, item call number, and price, and
push the info into Koha using stuff in C4.  What I've written is based
on "MARC 21 Concise Holdings: Location and Access Fields (852 & 856)"
( http://www.loc.gov/marc/holdings/echdloca.html ) and tuned for
Follett.  I've found this to be quite effective.  I have not dealt with
other vendors, so my code does not account for various quirks, but it
could be a good place to start such work.
Doing so has made migration and receiving book orders much easier for my
librarians.  Instead of converting the microlif file, they use my script
and pull the information straight into Koha.
I would very much like to see a feature like this in Koha.

On Mon, 2008-03-10 at 15:50 +1300, Mason James wrote:
> On 2008/03/8, at 5:24 AM, Darren De Zeeuw wrote:
> 
> > I am the volunteer IT guy for a small private school.  We have been  
> > using
> > Follett's Circ Plus/Cat Plus software for many years, but their  
> > upgrade path
> > is too expensive and our old Mac OS 9 machine running the software  
> > in the
> > library had a disk failure.  It's time to find another solution.   
> > Koha seems
> > to be the perfect fit for us, but I need to show that it's better  
> > than what
> > we have in order to get approval.
> 
> 
> Hi Darren,
> 
> Recently at LIblime, we did some conversions from Follet systems to  
> Koha.
> 
> >  I have a MICROLIF file with around 8000 records
> > exported from our Follett catalog.  I ran the bulkmarcimport.pl  
> > script and
> > it brought most of the data over as far as I can see (I'm not a  
> > librarian),
> > but seems to be missing our bar-coding information at least.  I'm also
> > unsure if I can migrate over our patron list as well.
> 
> 
> The missing item info you are describing is because Follet's MICROLIF  
> marc records store their item-info in the 852 fields ( from memory... )
> (Every ILS vendor have their little quirks about where they stuff the  
> item-level info, Follets looks to be in 852
> 
> What is needed is a small script to fetch those Follet 852 item- 
> values and move them to their corresponding Koha 952 fields, then  
> write those corrected records out to a new file.
> Run Bulkmarcimport.pl on this new file, and you will successfully  
> pick up those missing item-level values in your Koha marc import.
> 
> FYI: when i get some time, I plan to add to the koha-wiki some  
> general code examples of this mapping process I described.
> 
> I hope that helps,
> 
> Cheers, Mason.
> 
> 
> 
> 
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