Hi all, I'm a volunteer librarian (and LIS grad student) at the Urbana-Champaign Independent Media Center Library (http://ucimc.org/library) and am looking for an open source package that will help me with a project. I'd like to create a community online catalog. Currently, I have 2 organizations interested and the support of a faculty member at U. of Illinois Urbana Champaign who wants to give her cataloging students an opportunity to do actual MARC cataloging. I've got OpenBook software downloaded but because it's still in beta (and may never move out of beta), I hesitate to use it for fear of losing data. This has led me to Koha. Koha seems to have a good OPAC module, but I'd like to know more about the database backend. Is it fully MARC supported? Does it have a GUI input tool? Can MARC records be imported? Any information you can give me would be much appreciated. Thanks. James Jacobs James R. Jacobs Graduate Reference Assistant Education/Social Science Library University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Home: 303B1 Paddock Drive Savoy, IL 61874 (217)359-9283 jacobs@uiuc.edu http://radicallibrarian.org (\ {|||8- (/ ********************************************************** "Librarians, Dusty, possess a vast store of politeness. These are people who get asked regularly the dumbest questions on God's green earth. These people tolerate every kind of crank and eccentric and mouth-breather there is." --Garrison Keillor, "Lives of the Cowboys" ********************************************************** "But to live outside the law you must be honest." R.Zimmerman **********************************************************