Hi again And if I'm talking about something completely different I appologise - but I suspect the general thing is right - that MARC is something that you can have "obvious" or not, as is your preference Cheers R
Hi
I should say IANAL (I am not a librarian :-)
I got the impression that Koha "simpler non-MARC interface" form would not allow the "simpler" libraries to see the record in MARC compatible format. I apologise if I have misunderstood!
I think this is a misunderstanding. Aquisitions (full) is full because it deals with Budgets and bookfunds - MONEY, nothing to do with MARC. It assumes that you order books, wait around a bit, get the books delivered, then complete the catalogueing of them and put them on the shelves.
It assumes that you want to do the minimum amount of data entry necessary *before* you get the book to enable people to see that you have it on order, but that you don't want to spend a bunch of time entering in data for a book you may never receive (something not uncommon here at the end of the world :-). You don't do the full catalogue record until you have the physical book in your hand.
The simple Aquisitions system assumes that you don't really order books - or at least that you account for that in another system, that you just enter them when you get them, so it does the full record in one go - more like a "standard" catalogue screen I assume (But IANAL :-).
I *hope* and I haven't been involved in the MARC project, so I'm not sure, that EITHER acquisition system will do the whole MARC bit, and that all you are choosing, is the aquisitions system that best fits your libraries business process.
Hope it helps
Cheers Rachel _____________________________________________________________
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