At Binghamton University the Career Development Center is using Koha. They have about 800 items. The person doing all the day to day stuff has no library training but says she loves it and since we set her up and provided basic training she hasn't called us once about how to do something (it has been 6 months). Thus from my expierence running Koha is not a problem. I thought it was easy to set up, but I know ILSs and lamp applications so your milage may vary. Edward Sent from my iPhone On Jan 30, 2010, at 11:05 AM, Nicole Engard <nengard@gmail.com> wrote: David, The manual is more a usage manual. There is the Newbie Guide: http://www.pakban.net/koha/tut/newbie.html and the wiki (wiki.koha.org) which includes things like install docs (which are actually packaged with Koha) and other tips that you might be looking for. As for a small library, there are plenty of libraries using Koha just the way you want to. Nicole On Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 9:06 AM, <david@lang.hm> wrote: Recently the question of how to manage a large personal library (several of us have accumulated a few thousand books) came up on a sysadmin mailing list, and koha was mentioned as a possibility. In looking through the documentation I am seeing that it is a very powerful package, but I am not seeing good examples of how to get started for a small library. It's almost like the documentation assumes that you will be hiring a consulting team (or someone who has worked with it before) to do the initial setup and is mostly reference matrial for them to look up the details of a specific option. I am missing a 'getting started from scratch' type document. Has anyone put togeather a sample config that could be used for a single-location library? it would need to track inventory and do checkouts, but not budgeting or inter-library loans. David Lang _______________________________________________ Koha mailing list Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha _______________________________________________ Koha mailing list Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha