We are using Koha for our GIS Bibliography, see: gis.library.esri.com. There are roughly 150,000 citations (with some full-text pdfs) in our database. The goal is to cover all significant literature and grey material related to geographic information science. We've encountered several issues and I am still working out the kinks. 1. First cataloging citations in MARC is difficult. We are not cataloging physical items and MARC limitations for such records is beyond frustrating. 2.The whole purpose of our bibliography is for users to export citations while performing research. The built-in OPAC export tool did not export anything correctly! The export tool used the MARC leader position 6 for item type instead of the Koha item type when exporting to RIS or BIBTEX. This meant that conference papers, journal articles and book chapters always exported as "Books." Not helpful for users trying to build citations! We've been working with ByWater on this issue since 2013. They created a plugin that allows us to tell Koha what MARC fields to map to certain RIS/BIBTEX tags. So now the export tool points to 942c for item type instead of the leader. 3. Another issue we encountered involved the data migration from our old homegrown database to Koha. We did not have our records in MARC format and when they were converted we lost some valuable data. The biggest issue here involved journal volume, issue and page numbers being combined into a single 773 Host field. That meant exported citations did not have these valuable bits separated into their own fields. We have since copied this info to 363abc so that they are independent of each other. Also our data vendor put editors into author fields...another big no-no for citations. When I first started working on this project I contacted Fred King and found his website very helpful. I believe Koha was the correct choice for our library and I think the user interface and search options will make our bibliography users very happy. Colleen Conner Corporate Librarian, Esri -- View this message in context: http://koha.1045719.n5.nabble.com/Use-koha-as-a-reference-database-tp5846798... Sent from the Koha-general mailing list archive at Nabble.com.