Thanks for the replies.. The BiblioAddsAuthorities preference definitely improves things a little bit :) I've already looked at chunks of the manual, but I'm not sure that makes for a user-friendly catalogue capture screen. Do most people just use the standard Marc21 frameworks as it comes with Koha, or do you delete all of the "unnecessary" fields and keep only what you need? And is there a way to make it look friendlier? I was really hoping we'd be able to store e-stuff directly into the ILS... Rax On Fri, 2008-10-17 at 11:25 +0100, MJ Ray wrote:
Rakesh Mistry <rmistry@ori.org.za> wrote:
Does every single author/journal title/etc. have to exist in the Authorities list?
Sorry this is only a quick reply. I think you need to look in Admin Home: System Preferences: BiblioAddsAuthorities if you don't want author/journal title/etc to have to exist in the Authorities already. Or change your MARC setup to not use the authorities.
Am I missing something about the way the data should be captured? Any help or guidance would be really appreciated.
There should be a link to the manual's current location on koha.org somewhere, or on kohadocs.org - let me know if not and I'll fix it.
BTW Will Koha allow me to store e-journals within the system? In other words, people browsing the catalogue will be able to download an e-journal article or e-book.
I think it's better to use a repository and then add a link in the 847 field of a MARC record, but I still want to look at some stuff there.
Hope that helps,