On Tue, Oct 23, 2001 at 11:57:44AM -0400, Nicholas Stephen Rosasco said:
I know I've been... not contributing anything for quite awhile (a few pesky and inconvenient problems associated with finishing my degree, my apologies to everyone).
No need to apologise :-)
I was going to start working on the FAQ which has been on the list for me at Sourceforge for quite awhile.... since it is intended for the user community, I was going to get submissions from them as to what it should include.
Thoughts? Objections? Other requests?
Yep perhaps a request on the main list would be the best way to start, plus a read back thru the list archives to see what questions have been asked and answered.
Randomly, the test drive option at Koha.org may have a problem in http://hlt.katipo.co.nz/catalogue/ has a link ("acquisitions") to http://hlt.katipo.co.nz/catalogue/acquisitions, which doesn't exist.
Ahh ill fix that up, good spotting.
I have a collection of small libraries at my institution interested in using Koha, but they all want to know if there is some form for easy entry of data -- they all would be using volunteer labor to manually key in a fair amount of their collection information (probably from old style card catalogs) and really would like as-simple-as-possible forms for that. I see the order/receive forms, but don't see (forgive my missing it if it is there, I've not played with the acquire setup in a loooong time) a form to manually create items.
The ability key in an ISBN and have a lookup (say at some National Library MARC/Z39.50) server is there. I know the MARC project is going along well -- what are the chances of them being able to do that (instead of typing in complete records) soon?
I was considering trying to pitch in on that over this past summer, but was... daunted... by the scope of the MARC format.
I think Steve has gotten something like this going ... I think he has managed to do some z39.50 importing already?? Chris -- Chris Cormack Programmer 025 500 789 Katipo Communications Ltd chris@katipo.co.nz www.katipo.co.nz