[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Library wants to move to Evergreen

[Zachary Tucker]

Hello all!
I am the IT Director of the Nelson Memorial Library in Grafton, MA.  After
having the responsibility to operate the building moved from the town to a
group of trustees, I have been looking at library automation systems - open
source system, specifically.

The planned setup was to run the server in a VMWare environment and then
have the staff client accessible via 'checkout' computer.  Also, public
computers would be able to search the catalog via the OPAC system.

My questions:
a) Currently, the library volunteers have been cataloging donated books in a
program named 'BookDB'  Does anyone on the list have any experience
importing books from BookDB to Evergreen?
b) If the answer to a is no or not possible, is there an importing interface
where I can write a script to convert the BookDB output to a format that
Evergreen will accept.
c) Our last-ditch plan is to re-catalog them anew, but I can't find where we
can add books to the database.  Granted, I haven't looked around the server,
but I am looking for a point in the right direction.

Thank you
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