Hi Folks, I just ran across KOHA and am quite excited. I've always felt that library automation software was ridiculously expensive and would be an ideal candidate for a copyleft project -- kudos to those of you that have tackled this! Perusing the web site I find myself full of questions as to the exact capabilities and features of KOHA. For example, does it handle distribution; bar coding, scanning and things like that? What are its exact functions and capabilities? To give you an idea of the angle I'm coming from, I'm the technology coordinator for a public school district here in New Hampshire in the U.S.. I'd love to get some software to replace the ancient card catalogs that our students are using. Of course, the librarians of our two schools would love to be able to bar scan books to check them out, to generate reports of whose book is late, and to merge the catalogs of our two schools. Any whacks with a clue-bat, pointers, descriptions of capabilities, and other info for a KOHA newbie would be greatly appreciated -- TIA. Regards, . Randy