Re: [Koha] Switching from Other Library Software to Koha

2013-10-16 Thread Ben Doughney
Hi all, I have managed to get into the FireBird database back end of our existing AccessIt library catalog and export all of the data as a CSV file. Now I am trying to use MarcEdit to convert the CSV file into Marc records so that it can be imported into Koha. I have imported the resulting

Re: [Koha] Switching from Other Library Software to Koha

2013-10-16 Thread Robin Sheat
Ben Doughney schreef op do 17-10-2013 om 15:03 [+1300]: Hi all, I have managed to get into the FireBird database back end of our existing AccessIt library catalog and export all of the data as a CSV file. Now I am trying to use MarcEdit to convert the CSV file into Marc records so that it

Re: [Koha] Switching from Other Library Software to Koha

2013-10-09 Thread Olugbenga Adara
Hi Ben,   it looks like, there's nobody with experiences with migrating from AccesIt to Koha. So, in general, the main question is: Are you able, to export data in MARC format? Which version of MARC do you use in your library? Regards, In addition to exporting out in MARC as Josef

Re: [Koha] Switching from Other Library Software to Koha

2013-10-09 Thread Chris Cormack
On 10 October 2013 11:35, Ben Doughney bdough...@mhjc.school.nz wrote: Hi all, I had a look through AccessIt the other day. I can export a backup file, but it i saved in a FireBird database format which would require further work to get into a sensible format that could be imported into

Re: [Koha] Switching from Other Library Software to Koha

2013-10-09 Thread Ben Doughney
October, 2013 11:39:44 AM GMT +12:00 New Zealand Subject: Re: [Koha] Switching from Other Library Software to Koha On 10 October 2013 11:35, Ben Doughney bdough...@mhjc.school.nz wrote: Hi all, I had a look through AccessIt the other day. I can export a backup file, but it i saved

Re: [Koha] Switching from Other Library Software to Koha

2013-10-09 Thread Chris Cormack
On 10 October 2013 11:46, Ben Doughney bdough...@mhjc.school.nz wrote: Hi Chris, Yes, its that FireBird, although I don't know if there is any special customisation done of the software as it is packaged as part of AccessIt. If you have a db dump, it would be worth trying to load it into

[Koha] Switching from Other Library Software to Koha

2013-10-07 Thread Ben Doughney
Hi, I have just joined this email list to see if anyone has transferred from the library software AccessIt to Koha. Our school has been looking at Koha for a while and it looks like very powerful and customisable library software. The biggest hesitation we have in switching over is how to