Nicole - thank you very much for your response. I have read the manual pretty thoroughly I thought which is how I came to the conclusion that the only way to do what I want is to produce a radically pruned framework, deleting all but the basic fields that I need. However I then came across the guidance that it is not advisable to delete fields so I don't quite see how to come up with the final list of fields that I need. I don't think I can expect my volunteers to wade through 9 tabs worth of fields. I suppose I was hoping I could produce a form for them showing just those fields but can't find anything about that.<br>
<br>Many thanks anyway - I think what I really really need is a complete idiots guide to Koha!!<br><br>Jan<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 12:20 PM, Nicole Engard <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:nicole.engard@liblime.com">nicole.engard@liblime.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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As for a guide you can review the manual:<br>
<a href="http://sites.google.com/a/liblime.com/koha-manual/" target="_blank">http://sites.google.com/a/liblime.com/koha-manual/</a> there is a lot<br>
about this.<br>
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You are partially correct about the Z39.50 imports. If you delete<br>
fields from the framework then those fields will not come into your<br>
system. So if you have a field for title and author but no field for<br>
ISBN then you'll get the title and the author, but not the ISBN. Hope<br>
that helps a bit.<br>
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On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 5:47 AM, <<a href="mailto:reapsmoor@gmail.com">reapsmoor@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> Dear colleagues, I am attempting to set up a simple catalogue for a small<br>
> organisation. Koha has been installed and set up for me to go ahead with<br>
> and I can't wait to enter our items. We really only need a handful of<br>
> fields, such as acquisition no, author, title, pub details etc - probably<br>
> max 10-12 in total and I want to use some non-librarian volunteers to do<br>
> this work. The majority of our items are unique and not available through<br>
> z3950 - although some are. I have read back through the archives and see<br>
> that others have asked about this but I fear I don't properly understand the<br>
> answers!! If I make a modified structure so that only one tab is used for<br>
> cataloguing, instead of 9, wouldn't that also mean that when I want to<br>
> import a record via z3950 the details would have no-where to go or....? Is<br>
> there an online guide to doing this so that I can easily enter records in a<br>
> simple way - I suspect otherwise I will be back with lots more basic<br>
> questions!<br>
><br>
> Many thanks<br>
><br>
> Jan<br>
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