The Management of Systems Migration in an African Setting

Abstract

The Library and Documentation Centre of the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) migrated to a new integrated library software in 1997. This article gives reasons for the change, describes the selection process, the migration to INMAGIC DB/Textworks and conversion of records. Also, the problems encountered, publicity, training of library staff and users and future plans are outlined.


(African Journal of Library, Archives and Information Science: 2003 13 (1): 35-42)