[Koha-win32] Koha official software in Kerala

[Rajan]

Dear All,

There is a glad news for the Koha developers and enthusiasts that the Government of Kerala has made Koha as its official software for computerization of libraries under Government control recently.As well, Kerala Librarians Association had conducted two workshops to familiarize the librarians with the software - one at Calicut and another at Kotyam.

Pondicherry University included Koha in their practicals for M L I Sc students too.

This is just for information.

Regards,


K Rajasekharan
Librarian, Kerala Institute of Local Administration(KILA)
Mulagunnathukavu, Thrissur - 680581 , India
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: P. S. Mukhopadhyay 
  To: Rajan 
  Cc: koha-win32 at lists.koha.org 
  Sent: Saturday, August 02, 2008 12:09 PM
  Subject: Re: [Koha-win32] On Winisis conversio to Koha


  Dear rajan

  The steps as described by Serhij Dubyk are quite OK. But as u r nat familiar with command prompt, I can suggest u an easier path -

  1. Develop your bibliographic data in winisis by following a standrad data format (CCF or MARC 21). If u r following MARC 21, possibly ISISMARC (available freely) is a better option.

  2. After data entry work, export the databse as iso file. You can do it through winisis also, even if u r using isismarc. Go to file menu, select export. the file will be saved in work folder under c:\winisis.

  3. Download MarcEdit, another free MARC editor availavle freely.

  4. Open MARC tool, select CDS/ISIS conversion, Give file name. The iso file will be converted into MARC 21 format and will be saved as .mrc.

  5. Open Koha and import this file. It will go to biblio basket.

  6. From the cataloguing interface, you can bring each record into ur MARC editor of Koha.

  7. In case of bulk import, use the file under misc folder under koha

  partha

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  Dr. Parthasarathi Mukhopadhyay
  Lecturer, Department of Library and Information Science, University of Burdwan, 
  Burdwan - 713 104 (WB), India
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  On 8/1/08, Rajan <rajankila at hotmail.com> wrote:
    Dear All,

    I am new one in this group, unfamiliar with its  dynamics even. Last day I installed Kohav2.2.9 Windows in my computer and it appears nice.

    I want to know about  the conversion of cds-isis  catalogue into Koha.I saw a  documentation by Mr Baiju that describes about perl script use etc for conversion.
    Is there any other easier way to import winisis data ( using iso /xml conversion)  into Koha, as I am unfamiliar with perl script use.


    As well, I would like to know the phone number of some one in Kerala who is reasonably familiar with Koha in Windows and willing to clear my initial doubts over phone.

    Regards,


    K Rajasekharan
    Librarian, Kerala Institute of Local Administration(KILA)
    Mulagunnathukavu, Thrissur - 680581 , India
    Ph 0487 -2200244 + 208 ( extn)

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