Comments on: Do ya Koha? http://www.teach42.com/2005/03/22/do-ya-koha/ Education and Technology by Steve Dembo Sun, 12 Oct 2008 16:41:38 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 By: Anand Shankar http://www.teach42.com/2005/03/22/do-ya-koha/#comment-6664 Anand Shankar Sun, 26 Jun 2005 05:13:21 +0000 http://www.teach42.com/2005/03/22/do-ya-koha/#comment-6664 Have you been able to import your old database of books into Koha?? Can u share that experience? We have a medium-large size department technical library with a in-house developed Library software, which uses MS Access as the database. I fear the database structure has been designed for convenience and the vision of our Librarian rather than a Industry standard manner. For eg we may not have a ISBN no as a field, but we will have a UDC numbering and an Accession number for each book. We also keep a large number of Standards (IEC/..) and it also needs to be maintained. Any expeiences which can be shared?? Anand Shankar Have you been able to import your old database of books into Koha?? Can u share that experience? We have a medium-large size department technical library with a in-house developed Library software, which uses MS Access as the database. I fear the database structure has been designed for convenience and the vision of our Librarian rather than a Industry standard manner. For eg we may not have a ISBN no as a field, but we will have a UDC numbering and an Accession number for each book. We also keep a large number of Standards (IEC/..) and it also needs to be maintained. Any expeiences which can be shared??

Anand Shankar

]]> By: Aaron Smtih http://www.teach42.com/2005/03/22/do-ya-koha/#comment-363 Aaron Smtih Tue, 22 Mar 2005 23:19:23 +0000 http://www.teach42.com/2005/03/22/do-ya-koha/#comment-363 Cool, I wish I had the time/energy to play around with old computers and Linux .... maybe this summer. My wife's old Compaq is begging to be freed from the confines of Windows 98. Cool, I wish I had the time/energy to play around with old computers and Linux …. maybe this summer. My wife’s old Compaq is begging to be freed from the confines of Windows 98.

]]> By: John Pederson http://www.teach42.com/2005/03/22/do-ya-koha/#comment-355 John Pederson Tue, 22 Mar 2005 22:22:49 +0000 http://www.teach42.com/2005/03/22/do-ya-koha/#comment-355 Sounds very, very familiar. I love when I read my own thoughts online. We are currently looking at pulling in a new library management system...Sagebrush and Follett being the two leading candidates. Meanwhile, I've been banging around with Moodle and Drupal recently...all the time thinking "if this can be done for free, a library automation system should be very, very simple". I found Koha last week and have our technicians building a Debian box right now to give this thing a ride. Please continue to share your experiences! Sounds very, very familiar. I love when I read my own thoughts online. We are currently looking at pulling in a new library management system…Sagebrush and Follett being the two leading candidates. Meanwhile, I’ve been banging around with Moodle and Drupal recently…all the time thinking “if this can be done for free, a library automation system should be very, very simple”. I found Koha last week and have our technicians building a Debian box right now to give this thing a ride. Please continue to share your experiences!

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