Hello, all! I'm trying to get our church's small (i.e. 50-200 items) library online, and I'm spending this week trying to figure out how I'm going to do it. I've pretty much decided it's either going to be: 1) Koha, or 2) some application I write myself in Perl or PHP. I have Koha 2.2.9 set up on my Gentoo Linux (2.6.20) server (w/MySQL 5), and I'm trying to figure out... well, how Koha works, really. The guides on kohadocs.org have been useful, but they're incomplete on some things I need to figure out. If anyone can answer any of these questions, I'd be very grateful! - When an item is placed on reserve, how does the librarian receive a notification of that? (i.e. what tells him/her to go get the book off the shelf and put it on the reserve shelf?) - Also, when an item is placed on reserve, it still shows up in search listings with a status of "Available". Is that normal? Is there a way to have it show up as "Reserved", so nobody gets frustrated trying to find it on the shelf? - Can Koha prompt us to remove certain items from the reserve desk? (i.e. "The following reserved items have been held for 7 days without being picked up by the patron, and can therefore be placed back into circulation...") - Finally, although I downloaded the latest version of Koha I could find (2.2.9), I hear phrases dropped like "dev_week" or "Koha 3" that make me wonder if there's a newer, better version of Koha I can get...? For instance, the Nelsonville Public Library website (http://search.athenscounty.lib.oh.us/) looks much nicer than my Koha test site, even with my using the "npl" templates. Is that sort of look/feel only available with a commercial Koha product, or can I download something that will give me a similarly pretty site? I'm sure I'll have more questions as I get deeper into Koha, but this is a start. Thanks! _________________________________________________________________ Local listings, incredible imagery, and driving directions - all in one place! http://maps.live.com/?wip=69&FORM=MGAC01