Tuesday, March 13, 2007 17:23 CDT Hi, Jeff, Just a little addendum to Chris Cormack's substantial answer. Since you are in Canada, you may find the free registered service, AMICUS, with our national library and archives, helpful in downloading records. One of the nicest things about it is you can batch results when searching for records individually (still the best way to do it, since you can review the quality of each individual record that way). Of course, the Z39.50 services work well also. You can find out about AMICUS at URL <http://www.collectionscanada.ca/amicus/006002-122-e.html> If you want to determine if AMICUS will be able to help out with supplying records before signing up, please feel free to send me, off listserv, a small test sample of 20 or so ISBNs and I'll be glad to run them through and see what turns up. In any case, Jeff, welcome to the Koha community and good luck with the set-up of your library! Cheers, Steven F. Baljkas library tech at large Koha neophyte Winnipeg, MB, Canada ============================================================ From: "Jeff Yamamoto" <jeffya@yumisa.com> Date: 2007/03/13 Tue PM 03:45:14 CDT To: Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz Subject: [Koha] Creating a Japanese Library System I'm very new with Koha (and library cataloging for that matter) so please excuse my newbie questions. I'm helping a Japanese school in Canada setup a electronic library cataloging system and was considering using Koha since it's budget friendly and has a well established community. The school has about 4000 Japanese children's books and videos which needs to be catalogued and maintained by Koha. My questions: - Some of the books are very old but most have an ISBN number. Where can I download the book information so I don't have to manually input the info for each of the books/videos/etc. - Has Koha ever been deployed in a Japanese library? I've installed Koha on XP and Japanese characters can be inputted and displayed but will it search properly with Japanese characters? - Are there any "skins" or templates that simplifies or customizes the Koha GUI? - I'm assuming you can use a barcode scanner during check in/out of the books but are there any recommended bar code scanners in the market? Thanks in advance. Jeff ============================================================ _______________________________________________ Koha mailing list Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha