from Father - Mike Johnson <father@bigattichouse.com>:
Hi, a question.. must all the books be entered the first time around? Being a programmer, I tend to abhor repeated keystrokes... would it be possible to create a "book staging" library that the whole community could share..
Last time I checked, there was a service at the Library of Congress for getting MARC or Z39.50 data from ISBN or possibly other numbers. I think there (may) open source code for using those services floating around out there -- try http://oss4lib.org, they may have something. http://lcweb.loc.gov/z3950/agency/ http://lcweb.loc.gov/z3950/gateway.html are the info from LC on the x3950 standard, and http://www.loc.gov/marc/ is the website on the MARC bibliographic format. I apologize for the vagueness, but my notes on this (I've had the same thoughts) seem to be AWOL. If something could be thrown together to automate (say by ISBN) catalog entry I'd be tempted to do my home library with Koha. Hope that helps, Nick Rosasco