<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;">Nelson,<br><br>Except for the bit about cataloguing, Koha is a candidate for good behaviour..., all of your other questions boil down to something that sits there and does things without complaining much, and Koha won't.<br><br>You should provide some more information about your cataloguing. Koha does not currently have (in the official version, at least), alternatives to regular MARC cataloguing (if i may call it that). Having said that, with some configuration, and a little bit of training, you should be able to get your non-librarians do some half-decent stuff. But i am not a librarian myself, so i am on sticky terrain there...<br><br>Yes, Koha will handle single install, multiple administrators...<br><br>regards,<br>krishnan<br><br>--- On <b>Wed, 18/2/09, Nelson Fredsell -CCE <i><nelson@cfce.org.za></i></b> wrote:<br><blockquote style="border-left:
2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;">From: Nelson Fredsell -CCE <nelson@cfce.org.za><br>Subject: [Koha] Counting the cost<br>To: "Koha list" <koha@lists.katipo.co.nz><br>Date: Wednesday, 18 February, 2009, 2:12 PM<br><br><div id="yiv1259840691">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">I am considering Koha for our very small
libraries (Fewer than 50 transactions/day). We might get some help doing
the initial setup on a CentOS 5.2 server. We’re wanting a basic
install, allowing patrons to do online search of catalogues of multiple
collections in a single library, and multiple libraries belonging to legally
separate NGOs.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">+Once set up, is it possible that it could
need very little support/maintenance? We could pay something for set up,
but ongoing annual support fees we’d like to avoid.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">+And I suppose that support could be
provided remotely, perhaps on an hourly basis, with the exception of possibly
needing to reboot the server. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">+We have limited IT skills inhouse and NO
full time library staff. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">+ Staff who do the cataloguing would
not be professional librarians.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">+We’ve developed our own cataloguing
system, not standard in any way – can Koha work with this? Maybe
over time we’d like to standardize. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">+If so, the chaser question is that each
very small (NGO/school) library has its own cataloguing system: would
this be a problem for Koha – single install, multiple administrators (one
at each library).</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">I don’t want to bite off more than we
can chew, and I don’t want to leave my NGO in the lurch after I’m
no longer employed there. I have about three months to implement something,
and make sure it’s stable.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Thanks very much for feedback,</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Nelson</span></p>
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