Heritage → Koha

Dublin Business School

InstitutionDublin Business School

CountryIreland

MigrationHeritage → Koha

FromISOxford Heritage

ToKoha

Year2015

TypeAcademic library

Dublin Business School moved its library from the ageing ISOxford Heritage system — by then burdened with Windows 7 compatibility problems — to a Koha instance hosted and supported by Interleaf Technology. Staff were won over by the web-based staff client, describing Koha as 'intuitive,' 'very click friendly,' rarely prone to crashing, and accessible securely from home. The migration was not without pain: poorly formatted legacy data — rogue carriage returns, incompatible quotation marks and non-standard ISBNs — forced repeated clean-and-test import cycles, and staff bridged the cutover using Koha's offline circulation module. A total-cost-of-ownership comparison found ongoing Koha hosting and support cost about a quarter of the previous Heritage arrangement — a striking Irish example of both savings and workflow modernisation.

Original source

Migration to the Koha Open Source LMS: The DBS Library Experience

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