Koha, Marcedit, and more

After trying all summer to install the opensource ILS software Koha on our library’s Mac Mini, I finally succeeded in getting it installed on a Debian system I set up on a computer kindly donated by a client of mine. And even better, I was then able to import the records exported from our old library software. Pretty cool. But there are a few issues with the import and apparently I need to use a program called MarcEdit to clean up the Marc file. Trouble is, MarcEdit runs natively under Windows. To run under either Linux or Mac OS X, I need to install Mono on the Mac, or both Mono and/or Wine on Linux. Neither of these seem straightforward. I think I’ll run MarcEdit on the XP machine at the library.

And then I need to figure out what format the Patron file is in. But really – it’s getting close. Pretty neat stuff.