Steve, This is a great idea. I'm adding some prefs to control whether Member Numbers and Barcode numbers increment automatically, and this table will fit that need perfectly. May I suggest the following change to enable editing with phpMyAdmin CREATE TABLE systempreferences ( variable char(50) NOT NULL, value char(200), PRIMARY KEY (variable) );
Hi, a question.. must all the books be entered the first time around? Being a programmer, I tend to abhor repeated keystrokes... would it be possible to create a "book staging" library that the whole community could share.. download the titles by Dewey classification, say... then, when you go to enter books in the first time you could just scan and lookup by ISBN?.. or enter a new one, then you could upload any new items you've entered, hopefully getting a good percentage of books into the system with minimal repeat-keying all around? The stage-system could then create a "bibliographic subscription" for anyone using the system who may want the CD in hand.. you could then create a "Koha Distro" in the same vein as many linux distros... Download for free under GPL, or purchase a nice CD and maybe some printed docs. Receive booklist updates quarterly or similar. I would like to participate in creating such a repository. Mike
from Father - Mike Johnson <father@bigattichouse.com>:
Hi, a question.. must all the books be entered the first time around? Being a programmer, I tend to abhor repeated keystrokes... would it be possible to create a "book staging" library that the whole community could share..
Last time I checked, there was a service at the Library of Congress for getting MARC or Z39.50 data from ISBN or possibly other numbers. I think there (may) open source code for using those services floating around out there -- try http://oss4lib.org, they may have something. http://lcweb.loc.gov/z3950/agency/ http://lcweb.loc.gov/z3950/gateway.html are the info from LC on the x3950 standard, and http://www.loc.gov/marc/ is the website on the MARC bibliographic format. I apologize for the vagueness, but my notes on this (I've had the same thoughts) seem to be AWOL. If something could be thrown together to automate (say by ISBN) catalog entry I'd be tempted to do my home library with Koha. Hope that helps, Nick Rosasco
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