Self-introduction to the list, and parameter settings questions
Greetings to the list. I've been lurking for a while and browsing the archives, I've downloaded and successfully installed Koha on Windows (congratulations on an excellent product!), and I'm now setting up my parameters in preparation for importing user and biblio data. I am responsible for tracking various resources in a private primary school in Thailand. Our main ("real") library is running Alice, but they didn't want to take on extra work, and my management didn't want to spring for extra licensing. Koha is total overkill for our needs, but I didn't find anything else that I thought of good quality for free. I'm starting off with guided readers and related resources, but we plan to eventually track all kinds of teachers' resources and possibly even equipment inventory management. I am an experienced user back to DOS v3, some familiarity with database and networking concepts, but little *nix knowledge and no library tech other than what I've been soaking up from you guys <g>. OK, here goes, first questions: I'm not planning on using the budgeting/acquisition feature now, but will later - should I set koha to "Simple" now and change it later? What is the maximum number of renewals? (I would like to set "no limit") What is the maximum number of reserves? (ditto) What is the maximum enrollment period length? (ditto) How does one set up a network printer on Windows? When doing my MARC-Koha links (I'm sure I'll have a lot more questions on this later <g>), do you really have to do the mappings in *both* directions via "Links Koha-MARC DB" *and* "MARC tag structure"? Thanks in advance, and more to come shortly! Hans
Hans Henderson a écrit :
OK, here goes, first questions:
I'm not planning on using the budgeting/acquisition feature now, but will later - should I set koha to "Simple" now and change it later?
yes
What is the maximum number of renewals? (I would like to set "no limit") What is the maximum number of reserves? (ditto) What is the maximum enrollment period length? (ditto)
can be set in parameters IIRC
When doing my MARC-Koha links (I'm sure I'll have a lot more questions on this later <g>), do you really have to do the mappings in *both* directions via "Links Koha-MARC DB" *and* "MARC tag structure"?
you really don't have to do this twice : it's the same feature, but seen from one side or the other -- Paul POULAIN Consultant indépendant en logiciels libres responsable francophone de koha (SIGB libre http://www.koha-fr.org)
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