Wednesday, May 31, 2007 10:22 CDT Dear Naste Dwoya, With apologies for the delay in responding, I can offer the following quick words of advice regarding cataloguing now ... Koha developpers are still working away (tireless, dedicated bunch -- applause for all!) on making a better MARC editor for Koha. In the meantime, however, if you have to do data entry from scratch (i.e. starting from nothing), it may well be easier to use a simple MARC editor such as Terry Reese's MARCEdit, which is available for free off of the Library of Congress MARC Records, Systems and Tools page at URL <http://www.loc.gov/marc/marctools.html> In recommending this, I am assuming you have access to a Windows platform machine, because while some people have reported that MARCEdit works fine for them on a linux platform, it is not made to do so. If you can make use of MARCEdit and want to go forward with my suggestion, please write back to me off listserv with an example of the kind of data you need to enter AND the kind of barcodes you wish to use (if possible) and I shall try to set up an example template for you to follow in data entry as soon as possible. As for generating barcodes, I believe there are several answers to that problem in the Koha archives. Perhaps that part of the problem can wait until you have actual records to work with? I hope that this information helps in the meantime. In any case, best wishes as you continue your work with Koha and welcome to the Koha community! Cheers, Steven F. Baljkas library tech at large volunteer cataloguer Koha neophyte Winnipeg, MB, Canada ============================================================ From: naste dwoya <tichtektee@yahoo.com> Date: 2007/05/28 Mon AM 05:46:33 CDT To: koha@lists.katipo.co.nz Subject: [Koha] data entry and barcode generation Hi, i have successfully completed the installation of Koha, unfortunately i am unable to carry out the cataloging, can you please give me a step by step direction on what to do. i would also like to generate barcodes, unfortunately every time i try i receive an error. _______________________________________________ Koha mailing list Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha ============================================================