I'm very new with Koha (and library cataloging for that matter) so please excuse my newbie questions.<br><br>I'm helping a Japanese school in Canada setup a electronic library cataloging system and was considering using Koha since it's budget friendly and has a well established community.
<br><br>The school has about 4000 Japanese children's books and videos which needs to be catalogued and maintained by Koha. <br>My questions:<br><ul><li>Some of the books are very old but most have an ISBN number. Where can I download the book information so I don't have to manually input the info for each of the books/videos/etc.
</li><li>Has Koha ever been deployed in a Japanese library? I've installed Koha on XP and Japanese characters can be inputted and displayed but will it search properly with Japanese characters?</li><li>Are there any "skins" or templates that simplifies or customizes the Koha GUI?
</li><li>I'm assuming you can use a barcode scanner during check in/out of the books but are there any recommended bar code scanners in the market?</li></ul>Thanks in advance.<br><br><br>Jeff<br>