Koha is designed to support multiple branches (for example, the original implementation was for a library with 3 different sites). So your union catalog problem is covered, I think. Koha is normally run on a dedicated server (most of us use what is in practice a high performance PC) connected to the internet and the catalog information is delivered via the web (in other words, whatever your schools use for book check out will need a network connection, as will whatever is used to view the catalog). Forgive me for the bullet points... What kind of technology do you currently have? [Koha is normally configured and run on a Unix/Linux machine, but the catalog and circulation system can be used with anything with a web browser.] What kind of support (staff? contractor?) do you have? [Koha is intended to be pretty easy to handle, but installation at the moment is a little complicated at the moment.] What kind of budget do you have for this project? [Koha is free, I'm free, but Murphy's law :)] Are there are sort of standards (cataloging, circulation) you must abide by [you may need to check with your librarians on that]? What sort of record exporting does your catalog support? [If we're lucky, you may be able to feed all the book records directly from one to the other...]
-----Original Message----- From: Karen Littlefield [mailto:klittle@mid-del.k12.ok.us] Sent: Monday, July 01, 2002 9:01 AM To: nsr@etome.net Subject: Re: Hello
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So Nick where do we begin? What do you need to know from me? I am just trying to find a way to economically join our separate catalogs together to be viewed as one. Can the Koha Library Project help us?
Karen Littlefield klittle@mid-del.k12.ok.us Mid Del Schools Midwest City, OK 73110 405-737-4461 x294
Karen Littlefield wrote:
So Nick where do we begin? What do you need to know from me? I am just trying to find a way to economically join our separate catalogs together to be viewed as one. Can the Koha Library Project help us?
Karen: Do I understand from this that you want to have a central place where students can search for books and it will return lists of books that are available in every school? Are you looking at inter-school loaning? Are you looking to have a centralized district-wide circulation system as well? Or do you want individual library systems in each school? In any case, if you have already done some automation, and I gather you have, you'll want to check that the barcodes are unique in each school. If they are not, it's not a deal break in and of itself, but it would help if the barcodes used were unique throughout the district. Steve.
She's already covered, guys. The idea was just one of us would be answering the questions, at least to start :) to keep from swamping her w/ assistance. Nick
-----Original Message----- From: Tonnesen Steve [mailto:tonnesen@cmsd.bc.ca] Sent: Wednesday, July 03, 2002 6:58 PM To: Nicholas Rosasco Cc: Karen Littlefield; koha-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Koha-devel] RE: Hello
Karen Littlefield wrote:
So Nick where do we begin? What do you need to know from me? I am just trying to find a way to economically join our separate catalogs together to be viewed as one. Can the Koha Library Project help us?
Karen:
Do I understand from this that you want to have a central place where students can search for books and it will return lists of books that are available in every school? Are you looking at inter-school loaning?
Are you looking to have a centralized district-wide circulation system as well? Or do you want individual library systems in each school?
In any case, if you have already done some automation, and I gather you have, you'll want to check that the barcodes are unique in each school. If they are not, it's not a deal break in and of itself, but it would help if the barcodes used were unique throughout the district.
Steve.
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