You will need some computer literate people to help. I cataloged my personal collection of about 6000 books with some help from my sisters. It's now over 10,000 books. In the Administration section you will find a link to Z39.50/SRU servers. The most important one is the Library of Congress. These are the ones I use. Target Hostname/Port Database Userid Password Preselected Rank Syntax Encoding Timeout Record type Attributes Actions AUS NATLIB <http://windingcircle-intra.ewart.homelinux.net/cgi-bin/koha/admin/z3950servers.pl?op=edit&id=15> catalogue.nla.gov.au:7090 voyager No 0 USMARC MARC-8 0 Bibliographic LIBRARY OF CONGRESS <http://windingcircle-intra.ewart.homelinux.net/cgi-bin/koha/admin/z3950servers.pl?op=edit&id=1> lx2.loc.gov:210 LCDB Yes 1 USMARC utf8 0 Bibliographic NEW YORK UNIVERSITY <http://windingcircle-intra.ewart.homelinux.net/cgi-bin/koha/admin/z3950servers.pl?op=edit&id=17> aleph.library.nyu.edu:9991 NYU01PUB No USMARC utf8 0 Bibliographic OLIS <http://windingcircle-intra.ewart.homelinux.net/cgi-bin/koha/admin/z3950servers.pl?op=edit&id=13> library.ox.ac.uk:210 MAIN*BIBMAST No 2 USMARC MARC-8 0 Bibliographic If the book has an ISBN, you can search on that and get all the necessary data filled in. Otherwise search on Author and/or Title. Its not difficult, just tedious. Take a look at the Koha Z39.50 Server Directory <https://kohasupport.com/z39-50-server-directory/> to see if there are any that may be useful such as the Abilene Christian University (or 5 others) which may have listings not found elsewhere. You may have a few books that aren't listed anywhere. Save those to last after you've seen what the others have shown and create your own records. Good Luck Bob On 8/12/22 15:56, kolvir73 wrote:
There isn't even a card catalog. Just the checkout cards. There is a binder with a list of all books with an ascension number.
The library started 30 years ago with boxes of books that were shared before there was a room for it, before the church had a permanent location. We have had one volunteer librarian the whole time, but she has no formal training . Also quite computer illiterate.
On Aug 12, 2022, 2:48 PM, at 2:48 PM, "King, Fred"<fred.king@medstar.net> wrote:
How are your data stored now? Catalog cards? Ledger? Spreadsheet? A colleague and I are doing a presentation on CSV to MARC at next month's KohaCon, so if you're using a spreadsheet you're in luck. If you're using paper records, what kind of data are you collecting?
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I'm in charge of converting our small church library (about 6,000 items) from a manual system to a computerized one; volunteered actually. I've got koha installed and have worked through most of the implementation checklist. Most documents I can find are about converting from one computerized system to another, for example the koha wiki section on data migration. What I could use is some kind of guideline or article on the best way to go digital. It is a pretty big project and I have limited time, and would like to be as efficient as possible and avoid duplicate work.
Does anyone know of any resources? Besides setting up koha, all that has been done is to apply some preprinted barcode labels to a small part of the collection.
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