Kevin O'Rourke wrote:
Thanks for the links, I'd had a look at the LOC tutorials but I really don't have time to sit and read through so much information to extract the few things that are relevant to us.
I want you also to note that koha marc forms has the explain of name record before it, so it's easy to use it, I'm not sure easy is how I'd describe it. I think the explanations only make sense if you already understand MARC. There's also no online help for those forms. but always put in your mind if you don't need marc you can use koha with a non-marc format. I'm assuming that switching between MARC and non-MARC Koha will require a reinstall?
Without MARC what information does Koha store about each book?
Without MARC is a misnomer really, without having to see MARC is how it works.
Has anyone out there started using Koha without MARC and then deeply regretted it later? How difficult would it be to migrate at a later date?
The way Id do it, if I was you, is edit the MARC framework, you can change the text that appears on the form for adding and editing a record there. So instead of them seeing 100a Personal Name You can make it say Author Chris