Appendix C: Migrating to Koha

Migrating to Koha from the Alexandria Library Sysytem

Migrating data from an Alexandria library system to Koha, courtesy the Coast Mountains School District and Steve Tonnesen

Export MARC data from Alexandria system



Borrowers

In the case of CMSC, the borrowers database is populated from the same user database that is used on the school servers with a a custom script that runs nightly that updates the Koha borrower database automatically

Clearing all bibliographic data out of Koha between import attempts

WARNING!! These instructions are dangerous!! You should only do this on a clean Koha system where you are testing importing of MARC records from another library system. Do _NOT_ do this on a system which already has data stored in it. These instructions will delete _ALL_ bibliographic and holdings data from the Koha database.

Connect to your Koha database
mysql Koha -ukohaadmin -pmypassword
(get your koha userid and password from the /etc/koha.conf file)
Delete all of the bibliographic data <-- warning, very dangerous!
delete from biblio;
delete from bibliosubtitle;
delete from bibliosubject;
delete from biblioitems;
delete from items;