Hi all, I've been reading your notes about the future development of Koha, and it sounds pretty exciting. You've thought of some very nice features to add. I see that some people's duties are changing, and I'm wondering who are the key people working on MARC improvements, and if more details about the roadmap for the MARC portions of Koha is posted somewhere? Stop me if you know this already, but I think that since the MARC structure has so much functionality already built into it, why not take advantage of that? For example, using the indicators to help with indexing will solve the display sorting problem with titles that start with "The". Using the leader/fixed fields for item types, is another example of using fields already built into the MARC record. And, of course, the multiple subject headings issue needs to be resolved. I am stuck in my implementation of Koha because, although there is the ability to assign call numbers at the item level, the opac display (except for MARC view) is that of the bib level call number. Can the opac-detail templates/script be redone so that the info is pulled from the MARC record? Sorry, I just don't know how to get past this problem; it's the one thing keeping me from going live with the catalog at our library. I appreciate all the hard work you all do. I'd like to help, if I can. I'm a cataloger (is that obvious?) and a solo librarian, I know enough perl to be dangerous (which is probably not a good thing). Well, that's my 2 cents. Keep up the great work. I am a big fan of Koha and am doing my part to spread the good news. Thanks, Kim Scannell _______________________________________________ Koha mailing list Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha