Steven, Thank you for responding. I'm now taking some time to look at the information you provided. Meanwhile, here are some answers to your questions:
How large is your congregation's collection?
About 1,500 titles, 20 copies of each.
in dealing with setting up her church's new (and intended to be small) congregational library, a full MARC system wasn't even considered.
Is there any possible future penalty to be paid for not using MARC? Can we simply enable MARC later from the intranet screen, or will some MySQL conversion process be required if we change our minds?
If you are automating from scratch that poses a different set of questions than if you are automating from a collection indexed or catalogued in some manner. Do you have a card or book catalogue?
The best we currently have is a spreadsheet listing of our handbell music (300 or so titles). I think the remainder is not catalogued, or catalogued on paper only. Thanks again, Dave. -- Encrypted Mail Preferred: Key ID: 8527B9AF Key Fingerprint: E1B6 40B6 B73F 695E 0D3B 644E 6427 DD74 8527 B9AF Information: http://www.gnupg.org/ ASCII ribbon campaign: () against HTML email /\ against Microsoft attachments Information: http://www.expita.com/nomime.html