Ah! Welcome yet another LC person! Ed Sharpe
Subj: [Koha] support for LC call numbers, authority cross-references? Date: 9/9/2003 10:43:14 AM US Mountain Standard Time From: <A HREF="mailto:rgrunloh@s4.library.arizona.edu">rgrunloh@s4.library.arizona.edu</A> To: <A HREF="mailto:koha@lists.katipo.co.nz">koha@lists.katipo.co.nz</A> Sent from the Internet
Hi all,
I'm very happy to see that a project like this exists. Here at the University of Arizona Library, we have a librarian who is going to Kabul, Afghanistan, to try to help them reopen (I think) their University Library. She needs a small economical system to 'bootstrap' their operation on no funds, and Koha looks like a wonderful contribution.
My role in this has only been to do a test install for her, and provide some opensource software she can take with her on cd. We believe they have some sort of PC that can run Linux, and an internet connection, and someone who can install it.
But of course she has questions I've been unable to answer. The 2 most pressing for her are, does Koha support using LC call numbers for the collection, and does it support cross-references, ie some sort of authority control? I haven't been able to find evidence of them.
Has this been discussed before?
The third thing she would like to add, which would be in the distant future, is farsi (Persian) language support. We have some programming staff here but her Afghanistan trip is not an official University project at this point. Sometimes things like this can grow, of course ...
Thanks very much,
Robert Grunloh Support Systems Analyst Sr. University of Arizona Library Tucson AZ