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. Many thanks anyway - I think what I really really need is a complete idiots guide to Koha!! Jan On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 12:20 PM, Nicole Engard <nicole.engard@liblime.com>wrote:
Jan,
As for a guide you can review the manual: http://sites.google.com/a/liblime.com/koha-manual/ there is a lot about this.
You are partially correct about the Z39.50 imports. If you delete fields from the framework then those fields will not come into your system. So if you have a field for title and author but no field for ISBN then you'll get the title and the author, but not the ISBN. Hope that helps a bit.
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Dear colleagues, I am attempting to set up a simple catalogue for a small organisation. Koha has been installed and set up for me to go ahead with and I can't wait to enter our items. We really only need a handful of fields, such as acquisition no, author, title, pub details etc - probably max 10-12 in total and I want to use some non-librarian volunteers to do this work. The majority of our items are unique and not available
z3950 - although some are. I have read back through the archives and see that others have asked about this but I fear I don't properly understand
On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 5:47 AM, <reapsmoor@gmail.com> wrote: through the
answers!! If I make a modified structure so that only one tab is used for cataloguing, instead of 9, wouldn't that also mean that when I want to import a record via z3950 the details would have no-where to go or....? Is there an online guide to doing this so that I can easily enter records in a simple way - I suspect otherwise I will be back with lots more basic questions!
Many thanks
Jan
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