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Paul
As someone using koha for a smallish(~30,000 volume) more or less private library I would like to belatedly add three extra low priority wish list feature requests that I haven't seen discussed:
low priority wishes, maybe, but that's the kind of idea the managers team always take care of !
1. A way to use koha to order from book sellers that we have a standing relationship with ( Amazon.com or Powells.com for
example )
do you mean "electronic orders" here ? if yes, that's something we already spoke about some months ago. Not planned at all, anyway. If funded by a bookseller, could be quickly added :-)
2. the opac in xhtml so that someone contemplating an acquisition at a book store could see if the book is already in the library via internet enabled phone. Having the acquisition in xhtml would not help me, because there is no way the book will get entered in the catalog until it arrives in the library. This is probably not something that larger libraries care about, but would be nice for personal libraries.
The 2.0 will include a full-templated koha. This means it will be possible (and not too hard) to add as many themes as needed. Thus, anybody could develop a xhtml theme, or even a full-xml theme, or anything else. This is with templates too that we can translate koha in any language
3. The ability to add items without a barcode. so that barcodes don't have to be set aside for books that have not yet arrived. (This may already exist but I'm not aware of it. This would be of greater importance if acquisitions was in xhtml and there was a chance that someone would add a book from their cell phone. But others might find it useful.
strange thing indeed. Does someone else have something like this ? Don't you misunderstood what means : "patrons should be able to find biblios without items in the opac, to see that the book will arrive soon ", as i think it's what you ask for ? -- Paul POULAIN Consultant indépendant en logiciels libres responsable francophone de koha (SIGB libre http://www.koha-fr.org)