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+Library Data Migration Tools
+
+Various tools for manipulating and migrating library data
+from one library automation system to another:
+
+* Equinox-Migration - Perl modules for extracting and mapping
+  data from MARC records
+* extract_holdings - extract item data embedded in bibliographic
+  MARC records to tab-separated-values files
+* marc_cleanup - perform a variety of fixups on MARC record files
+* fingerprinter, match_fingerprints, extract_loadset - tools
+  to deduplicate MARC bibliographic records
+* sql/base/base.sql - set of stored procedures for staging
+  and loading data into an Evergreen database