Monday, December 2, 2002 22:35 CST Paul, etal. Regarding the planned/hopeful addition to Koha of what we in the library world might call a MARC editor (the ability to view bibliographic and authority records in MARC tagged format and add/modify records in MARC tagged format), I was wondering if anybody took a look at the free MARC editor available from Terry Reese from Oregon State U (via URL <http://www.onid.orst.edu/~reeset/marcedit/html/>) listed on the LC page on MARC records, Systems, and Tools (URL <http://lcweb.loc.gov/marc/marctools.html>) as a prototype? Since I am a complete neophyte, please excuse if this has already been done and rejected, or is impracticable because of its base in MS COM arch. Reese does claim that users can "access the functionality of the MarcEngine through numerous scripting or programming languages ..." At the very least, it is a handy free editor. Anyway, I hope this may help. There are a number of other useful tools available on the LC page that Koha users might want to be aware of. I've visited the page fairly regularly over 5 years now: it is fairly stable and continues to grow. Bon courage! Amitiés, Steven F. Baljkas Koha novice in Winnipeg