Hi all, I was setting up a quick demo Koha today for someone and it got me thinking about a better way to layout the admin screens. http://katipo.co.nz/gallery/koha-admin Are some pictures. My general feeling was that there are only a few things you need to set if you're just wanting to put in a few books and see what it does (hence the short list of required settings) But that then the other preferences should be grouped into the area they relate to perhaps? I did think that they could be grouped into "things to do if you've got a big library" and things to do if you don't - but that seemed a bit harder to decide on. Anyway let me know if it appeals - we might give it a try in the Katipo templates first. PLUS are there actually more admin parameters than I've got here.... And are any of them MARC/NON MARC specific - I'd particularly like to not have people setting variables that they don't have to. Cheers Rachel -- _____________________________________________________________ Rachel Hamilton-Williams Katipo Communications MANAGING DIRECTOR Ph 021 389 128 or +64 04 934 1285 mailto:rachel@katipo.co.nz PO Box 12487, Wellington http://www.katipo.co.nz New Zealand Koha Open Source Library System http://www.koha.org
Rachel Hamilton-Williams said:
PLUS are there actually more admin parameters than I've got here....
Yeah, there's a few more things now. Take a look at http://www.saas.nsw.edu.au/koha_wiki/index.php?page=SystemPreferencesHelp (the wiki). -- Stephen Hedges Skemotah Solutions, USA www.skemotah.com -- shedges@skemotah.com
Friday, October 29, 2004 01:51 CDT Hi, Rachel, I just got through viewing the Admin Screens and I think the overall look is great. :-) Very clean and easy to follow. As a cataloguer, I would suggest separation of Acquisitions from Cataloguing. Traditionally, they are considered separate functions as technical services. Otherwise, on that screen, you would need to have Cataloguing as a heading above MARC options as well, since all MARC is is a format for cataloguers to standardise and exchange information and save on labour. Searching, not incidentally, can be seen, legitimately, as related to Cataloguing and the Admin Search page could be included with cataloguing, wherever it goes, since stop words are related to Authorities. I just wanted to clarify one thing (that the new screens reminded me of) in case I am understanding it wrong: can the OPAC display be set as non-MARC and the Intranet as MARC? As for MARC-specific things: I don't know if someone is working on it, but Koha would need to learn to deal with MARC Authority files eventually, if it is to have a fair shot at larger academic libraries in North America, where many a cataloguing department is obeisant to OCLC and LC auths. While I find the idea of little library things to do vs. big library things to do list options interesting -- especially as Koha could be adapted for different types of collections beyond the chiefly monographic library --, the vast majority of libraries of any size have to do all the same things: it is usually just a matter of scale that determines some priorities. All in all, I quite like the new screens, Rachel. Brava! Cheers, Steven F. Baljkas library tech at large Koha neophyte Winnipeg, MB, Canada ----- Original Message ----- From: "Rachel Hamilton-Williams" <rachel@katipo.co.nz> To: "Koha-devel" <koha-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>; "koha" <koha@lists.katipo.co.nz>; "Robert Lyon" <bob@katipo.co.nz>; "Chris Cormack" <chris@katipo.co.nz>; "Russel Garlick" <russel@katipo.co.nz>; "Paul POULAIN" <paul.poulain@free.fr> Sent: Wednesday, October 27, 2004 12:03 AM Subject: [Koha] Koha Admin Screens
Hi all,
I was setting up a quick demo Koha today for someone and it got me thinking about a better way to layout the admin screens.
http://katipo.co.nz/gallery/koha-admin
Are some pictures.
My general feeling was that there are only a few things you need to set if you're just wanting to put in a few books and see what it does (hence the short list of required settings)
But that then the other preferences should be grouped into the area they relate to perhaps?
I did think that they could be grouped into "things to do if you've got a big library" and things to do if you don't - but that seemed a bit harder to decide on.
Anyway let me know if it appeals - we might give it a try in the Katipo templates first.
PLUS are there actually more admin parameters than I've got here....
And are any of them MARC/NON MARC specific - I'd particularly like to not have people setting variables that they don't have to.
Cheers Rachel
-- _____________________________________________________________
Rachel Hamilton-Williams Katipo Communications MANAGING DIRECTOR Ph 021 389 128 or +64 04 934 1285 mailto:rachel@katipo.co.nz PO Box 12487, Wellington http://www.katipo.co.nz New Zealand Koha Open Source Library System http://www.koha.org
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