On Fri, Jan 17, 2003 at 11:43:00AM +1100, Jean Truebridge said:
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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 feel that it is very important to have all records MARC compliant for international cooperation, even if this is rarely needed at the local leval. With NLA the records are stored in NLA servers etc, not at the local leval which obviously could not store 36 million records!
You are kind of right :-) The simple non-MARC interface doesnt present the data in MARC to the librarians. That is not to say though, that the data isnt viewable and/or exportable in MARC format. Its just that the librarians have chosen (by setting a system variable) not to have to see the records in MARC format. This is the beauty of storing the data in a relational database, its very easy to present the same data in numerous different ways. So librarians can interface with the data in a way they are comfortable with. Hope this helps Chris -- Chris Cormack Programmer 025 500 789 Katipo Communications Ltd chris@katipo.co.nz www.katipo.co.nz