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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Hello</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I have been employed to set up a library at the
South Pacific College of Natural Therapeutics. Someone suggested we use Koha as
a library and an IT person has installed this.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I am a librarian used to using different systems
but not Koha.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I have searched the archives re Classification
field but couldn't find a definitive solution. I want to use National Library of
Medicine (NLM) class. which is part of Library of Congress and is alphanumeric.
When I put this in the Dewey field it doesn't come up on the catalogue screen.
When I put it in again under Group modification it doesn't save any of the data
I input at that stage. Does this mean I can't use a class. system other than
Dewey?</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Which brings me to the next few points - I have
been reading about bugs but I'm not an IT person so it goes over my
head.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I am using Acquisitions Simple. When I try to add a
biblio without an ISBN, the next page I go to doesn't have as many fields
as the testsystem on Koha. i.e. It doesn't have a classification field (It does
have Dewey field); it doesn't have an ISBN field so the entry ends up on the
third page without one. If I enter a record via the ISBN on the first page, it
then takes me to the third page which is basically the ISBN page and misses out
the second page completely.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Once in the catalogue there is no Item type (though
I have previously entered it and I have added it originally through the system
parameters). no NLM either. I can modify the record on that page but when I go
the the Group modify page</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>and add NLM, item type and ISBN, it doesn't save
any of the information. When I click on Group delete, it sends me to a page
unable to be found. Are these bugs? Can this be fixed?</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>or am I missing something completely.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>The System Parameters do not contain as many
parameters as the test database on Koha. Missing - MARC tag structure,
Links Koha - MArc Db, MARC check, Thesaurus, Authorised Values, Membership
Category. And the system preferences do not contain all the preferences that the
test database has, although I have added Autobarcode myself.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>When I enter a new member the Area field has
a dropdown box with a choice of areas from Horowhenua. Since this library is in
Auckland is it possible to change and where would this be done.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>RE barcodes - I gather from the archives I have to
use 9 digits with the last one as a check digit and that could be x on the
actual barcode.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I'm sorry to ask all these questions but I am at
the library only one day a week and I spent a very frustrating Friday getting
this far.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I an pass on any IT type responses to the IT person
who set it up for us.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Many thanks </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Jade</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>