Abstract:
The present paper is a case study of the migration process from
proprietary library automation software LibSys and open source library management
software Koha. This paper aims to present a customized procedure flowed by the
library University of Jaffna (UOJ) during the bibliographic data migration process.
UOJ Library has the different type of resources including books, journals, reports,
government documents and the huge number of electronic resources. Migration of
bibliographic data from LibSys to Koha flowed a customized procedure according
to our collection type. Data were transformed through LibSys Acquisition report and
cataloging report, finally two reports were merged to develop a final data sheet in
Excel. Different excel functions were followed to extract some field from the
developed final sheet. MARC fields were arranged according to our cataloger’s
needs, display in the OPAC system and searchable for the users. This migration was
carried out by academic librarians using freely available tools: Open Office Calc,
Marc Edit and the Koha Integrated Library System. The data migration pathway
presented here was developed and successfully used to transfer over 150,000 record
in less than two months. This case study presents an original process that is
particularly effective for an academic library migrating from LibSys to Koha.
